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The burial site of the mythological and biblical Queen of Sheba, also known as Bilikisu Sungbo among Yoruba people, has been transformed into a tourist destination and place of worship in Nigeria. Every year, millions of people travel from all over the world to join in the mystery surrounding the corpse turned shrine of Bilikisu Sungbo in Oke-Eri, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria.    According to legend, the legendary queen Bilikisu Sungbo journeyed all the way from Ethiopia to Ijebu-Ode, where she passed away and was buried. Strong and well-known assertions about the identity of the contentious Bilikisu Sungbo are made by the residents of Ijebu-Ode.   They asserted that she was the wise king Solomon's visitor, the Queen of Sheba, who was described in the Bible during the height of his reign. Additionally, they asserted that the person who paid king Sulaiman a visit was Bilikisu Sungbo, the Quranic Queen Baliqs of Ethiopia (from whom the name Bilikisu was derived). Accordin...

 Ijebu Itele is a town in Ogun State, Ijebu-East LGA. It is considered a traditional state because it is headed by a king (Oba) with the royal title of Moyegeso, a part II Oba as stated in the official gazette in 1990 of the Ogun State Government. The incumbent is Oba Mufutau Adesanya Kasali Iboriaran I. The town is known to have produced notable individuals amongst which are; Otunba Adedoyin Olaide Ogunde, a past president of ICAN and a partner at KPMG Peat Marwick Ani Ogunde &co., one of the top chartered accountants in Nigeria, was born in the town. Alhaji Chief, a previous deputy governor of Ogun State. Rafiu Ogunleye was from the Itele neighborhood of Agbodu. Prof. Samuel O. Onakomaiya, a late educationist and previous deputy vice chancellor at what is now Olabisi Onabanjo University (formerly Ogun State University), was from Itele. Late Chief Mrs. Opeoluwa Solanke-Ogunbiyi (Nee Obisanya), who was well-known as Mama WASU in the United Kingdom in the 1940s and 1950s, was a...