July 30, 1877– March 14, 1893 (15 years and 227 days)
Location
Yorubaland, now Southwestern Nigeria
Result
Military Stalemate
Ekiti people gain independence on September 23, 1886
Fighting persists between the Ibadan and the Ilorin kingdoms
British-Ijebu War
Capture of Ilorin by Royal Niger Company in 1897
Siege of Oyo
Territorial changes
Subsequent colonisation and annexation of Yorubaland by the British Empire into the Southern Nigeria Protectorate
Belligerents
Western Yoruba (Ibadan):
Ibadan
Iwo Kingdom
Igbajo, and other Oyo Yoruba towns in the region formerly under the Old Oyo
Offa Kingdom
Modakeke
Eastern Yoruba (Ekiti-Parapo):
Ijesha kingdom
Ekiti confederacy, including the Akure Kingdom
Akoko confederacy
Egba kingdom, the city state of Abeokuta
Ijebu Kingdom
Ila Kingdom and the Igbomina confederacy
Ilorin Emirate
Ife Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Obadoke Latoosa, Aare Ona Kakanfo of Ibadan †
Ajayi Ogboriefon, Balogun †
Babalola Ajayi Kupolu †
Ogunmola, Bashorun of Ibadan
Balogun Ali of Iwo
Balogun Ajayi Osungbekun
Fabunmi of Okemesi, later Owa Ooye of Imesi-Ile
Ogedengbe of Ilesa
Odu of Ogbagi-Akoko
Ogunmodede of the Ijesha
Karara of Ilorin
Adeyale of Ila and the Igbomina
Olugbosun of Oye
Onafowokan of Ijebu
Ologun of Owo
Ogunbulu of Aisegba
Strength
estimated 180,000 (Ibadan)
75,000 (Ekiti); 30,000 (Ife)
Casualties and losses
unknown
unknown
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