Ibadan long had a feud with Abeokuta, but on the establishment of the British protectorate the intertribal wars were stopped.
Yet this apparently incoherent aggregate held its ground successfully against the powerful armies often sent against the place both by the king of Dahomey from the west, and by the people of Ibadan from the north-east.
Ibadan is the capital of one of the Yoruba states and enjoys a large measure of autonomy.
In 1862 the people of Ibadan destroyed Ijaya, a neighbouring town of 60,000 inhabitants.
A British resident and a detachment of Hausa troops are stationed at Ibadan.
