Okada Wonderland 1982

Okada Wonderland 1982.

The word “Okada” comes from two Edo words: ‘Oke’ and ‘Ada,’ meaning “The hilltop of River Ada.

They are known for their advanced bronze casting and artistic skills.

Okada is home to Igbinedion University. The institution was founded by Sir Gabriel Igbinedion.

One of his earliest demonstrations of this was his donation of the Okada Grammar School to the Bendel State Government in 1972 and the sole rehabilitation of the Okada Primary School.

At a later date, January 1974, he gave a bus to the Grammar School to ease its transport problems. In accordance with the philosophy of charity beginning at home, Chief Igbinedion was to do more for his home base, Okada.

In 1984 he financed single-handedly a pipe-borne water supply scheme for Okada, commissioned by Lt. General J.T. Useni then the Military Governor of Bendel State; he built the Okada Village Trado Medical Centre and launched a N50,000 Trust Fund, the proceeds of which are being utilised in awarding university scholarships to deserving indigenes of Okada Grammar School.

He established a Trust Fund for the best student at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital School of Midwifery in memory of his late mother Okunozee Igbinedion.