Ota (alternatively spelled Otta') is a town in Ogun State, Nigeria with an estimated 163,783 residents. Ota is the capital of the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area. The traditional leader of Ota is the Olota of Ota, Oba Adeyemi AbdulKabir Obalanlege. Historically, Ota is the capital of the Awori Yoruba tribe. As of 1999, Ota has the third largest concentration of industries in Nigeria. It also possesses a large market and an important road junction, found just north of the tollgate on the Lagos - Abeokuta Expressway. Ota is well known because it is home to Obasanjo Farms Nigeria Limited belonging to the former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Ota is also the location of Canaanland which is the campus of the megachurch Winners' Chapel, as well as home to the Africa Leadership Forum. Otta is known as the home of some Yoruba ancient deities and festivals. Some of the festivals usually celebrated in Otta includes Egungun festival, Iganmode Cultural Festival, Gelede Festival, etc. History OTA is a very ancient and foremost Awori kingdom whose existence dated back several millenniums ago. The town, no doubt, is acknowledged to be the first kingdom in the entire Awori land, a sub- Yoruba ethnic group, known as the Awori Kingdom Of "Ota" and equally ranks as one of the earliest or oldest kingdoms in Yoruba land. As an enviable and great kingdom of note, it has very strong, sacred, and, of course, fortress traditions of origin, custom, culture, history and anthropology spiced with ethnological settlements and certified prudence spanning several centuries. Also, the town, no doubt, is the ancestral root of many ancient towns or kingdoms within the present Ogun State and outside the state, such as; Lagos state, Oyo state, Osun state, nay, Nigeria, and sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, this historic milestone laced with ancient historical landmarks has been kept intact for thousands of years of both recorded and unrecorded history with verifiable claims succinctly supported by archeological studies and social anthropology. Of course, as an historical monumental entity, several kings (Traditional rulers) had reigned in this most ancient and revered kingdom before the 10th to 16th centuries. HISTORICALLY, OTA’S existence dates back to at least the period of Orunmila (a contemporaneous with the Orunmila) as an established and organized human habitation or community with Obaship institution that no one could ascribe any specific date thus since the BC era. There were very few settlements