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The area surrounding the town has a thick vegetation which provides timber logs for surrounding communities. Apart from lumbering, farming and trading of food produce is another major activity of residents of
Idiroko. Though farming is largely used for subsistence living, it sometimes provides stock
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The frontier post is also used by human traffickers to carry young girls and boys from the
Republic of Benin into Nigeria. Sometimes, the underage children are leased by their parents to work in Lagos for a stipulated time frame. Most of the children are taken from Benin to serve as maid or house
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Due to the location of the town along the
Nigeria-Benin border, an illegal smuggling trade exists within the settlement. Illegal cross-border trade is carried out by settlers and transient populations using knowledge of the local population to create alternative routes within the border. Among the
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Historically, the people of
Idiriko and the town of Igolo were one community until the partitioning of the area in the nineteenth century by the French who took Igolo and the British who claimed Idiroko. The present area known as Idiroko is a combination of various settler wards including Ikolaje,
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Idiroko are multilingual because of their mixed culture due to cross-cultural contact and
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highway. The area is about 55 meters above sea level and along the West
African coastal plain. The average annual rainfall is between 1500 mm and 2000 mm. The weather pattern follows those of nearby communities with a rainy season from May to October.
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border and has been an official border crossing point since at least the 1960s. The town is surrounded by many other towns and villages including Oniro, Oke Odan, Ilase,
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goods smuggled are petrol, poultry, tyres, motor parts, drugs, cars and electronics. There exist at least six illegal entry points in the area.
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