Isolo was founded by an Awori man from Ile-Ife called Akinbaiye who was a great warrior, hunter and farmer. He came, with own Ifa oracle, which they consult. It was his Ifa oracle that asked him to move along with Olofin, the progenitor of Awori clan. Before he settled at Isolo, he first settled at Osoru Village, that is where we called the Jakande Estate now. As a great hunter, farmer and warrior, he decided to hunt around, looking for animals. One day, he now saw the footstep of an elephant; he was amazed that there was elephant in the bush. He now moved around to make sure he saw the elephant and kill it. It was then he discovered that the elephant normally stayed by one river called Yewa.
This river was a very big one; the elephant will come there with other elephants to drink water. He then decided to kill the elephant to show to other hunters that he was a great hunter. In those days, when someone kill a big animal like that you have to show, to the other hunters to prove your ability to them. He killed this elephant in front of Yewa River and he consulted his Ifa oracle and he was told to perform some rituals so as to appease the gods of the water. So he decided to slaughter the elephant and he now found out that all the cutleries he was holding were not sharp enough, so he decided to look around and in the process he discovered a grinding stone that was very big. He was amazed at the size of the rock. He climbed on the rock and called out to other hunters in the hope that he would get a helping hand, but nobody showed up. He now quickly sharpened all his cutleries with the stone, cut the elephant up and moved part of the meat back to home. He now told his family members and friends that he had killed an elephant and moved it to near by Iso-olo (place of the great grinding stone).
He consulted his Ifa oracle, which told him he had finally arrived at his area of abode. Thereafter he moved his family down and started living beside the Oolo (grinding stone) so, any time his friend wanted to see him, he would tell them he had moved to Iso-olo. From then on the place was called Iso-olo, now Isolo. That was how Isolo came about, and the Osolo is the owner of Iso-olo area. All these thing he saw made Akinbaiye to go back to Ile-Ife and told the story to other members of his family who agreed to follow him down to Isolo. That was how Alagbeji followed him down to Isolo, later Okota also followed him and when they were coming they came with their wives and children. Adeola being a female was a princess from Ife who had just lost her father and her family had just decided to give them their own share of their father’s property, unknown to her that part of what they gave to her was a crown. She decided to look for Akinbaiye, being somebody she knew very well. It was when they searched the load she brought from Ile-Ife that they saw the beaded crown and a woman cannot wear beaded crown in Awori land. They consulted the Ifa oracle, they performed some rituals and appeased the gods and they were told that the children could make use of the crown in future. Adeola was married Onigbesa, So when Adeola got children, they were three, Ogundamija, Aina-Igbeto and Aina-Eletu. When the place was expanding, Ogundamija was installed as the Oba then. Later, Alagbeji also told his own part of the history that he belonged to the royal family in Ile-Ife, which was traced and found to be true, so another person from Alagbeji became the Osolo after the demise of Ogundamija from Adeola ruling house. Later Okota, the most powerful among them, very powerful, also became the next Osolo after the demise of Alagbeji. So the rotation of the crown was done among these three royal families. Isolo has a very large firm.
Akinbaye gave a lot of peoples land where they can farm. Isolo land extends up to the NNPC in Ejigbo, that place belongs to Fanimewon Family. In those days, there was the near farm and the far farm, up to Jakande Estate, up to NNPC Junction, down to Ajao Estate, have a common boundary up to Oshodi. Olisi Onigbesa, the husband of Adeola, his the owner of Oshodi Land, up to the railway station, up to NITEL, down to Matori in Mushin all belongs to Onigbesa and Alagbeji also used to keep a farm in part of Ajao Estate in Mushin, down to Idi-Araba.
Obele-Oniwahala, which all belongs to the people of Isolo, This was how Isolo became a cosmopolitan city. lsolo had a Baale in Mushin, Ajao Estate, also have Baale in Mafoluku, and Okota. And those who came to farm with lsolo, they were domestic members of this community. The Ishaga people who are looking for a new settlement after the Dahomey war, they went to Taiwo Olowo who brought them to Ishaga to farm and Isolo gave them some place where they can carry out farming. They are living within the lsolo area and they also have their own Baale there. Isolo is a very large place. have a common boundary with Isheri-Olofin, after Jakande Estate and the people of Ejigbo.
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