The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook American Heritage Coll. Manufactures include cigarettes, matches, and sugar.
Traditional artisans make woven goods, tin products, wood carvings, and pottery.
Ilorin was the capital of a Yoruba kingdom that, with the assistance of the Fulani , successfully rebelled against the Oyo empire in 1817 but soon thereafter was incorporated into the Fulani state of Sokoto . Through warfare against Oyo and Ibadan in the later 19th cent. In 1897 it was conquered by troops of the British-chartered Royal Niger Company led by Sir George Goldie . The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.