Ilorin

American  

[ih-lawr-in] / ɪˈlɔr ɪn /

noun

1. a town in W central Nigeria.

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Ilorin British  

/ ɪˈlɒrɪn /

noun

1. a city in W Nigeria, capital of Kwara state: agricultural trade centre. Pop: 714 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

“Now is the time to act before millions of people die due to increasingly ineffective antimalarial treatments,” said Prof Olugbenga Mokuolu, from the department of paediatrics at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria.

From BBC

On April 22, a federal court in Ilorin, in the north-central region, convicted two Chinese nationals for illegal mining and sentenced them to a one-year jail term, although with an option of a fine.

From Seattle Times

Atinuke Bolajoko, a 43-year-old civil servant in Ilorin, a city in central Nigeria, said she stopped feeding rice to her three children, and switched to gaari, a mixture made from processed cassava, and a dish usually consumed by low-income Nigerians.

From New York Times

Donning the pink dress and bonnet that make up her uniform, she joins hundreds of similarly dressed pupils at a school in Ilorin, in Nigeria’s western Kwara state.

From Reuters

But Ms. Dakolo met him nearly two decades ago, in the midsize city of Ilorin, when he was an up-and-coming star and she was still a teenager.

From New York Times