ALAGBA OF OGBOMOSO: THE LEGENDARY TORTOISE

The Oldest Living Animal In Nigeria.

The story that caught the attention of the members of the "Nigeria NewsInfo"team today was the story of the 345-year old tortoise, also referred to as “Alagba”. Alagba, according to a worker in the palace, Alagba was brought to the palace during the reign of Oba Kumoye Ajao (one of the earliest kings that the city had) and the creature according to him is not only the oldest but the biggest in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Tourism is not complete in Oyo State without a reference to Alagba - a giant male tortoise in Ogbomoso Palace.Alagba was said to be more than three centuries old ,thereby making it the world`s oldest living tortoise .

Alagba, a giant male land tortoise believed to be over 330 years is still alive at the palace of Soun of Ogbomosoland in Oyo State.

The legendary tortoise who lumbers about in the palace is popularly called “the elderly one”.

Permutations about its true age relies heavily on oral history. Its present age was arrived at by situating it with the period of the Soun who reigned then. Alagba was allegedly brought to the palace by Soun Ikumoyede Ajao,the third Soun of Ogbomoso, who is believed to have been born sometime in the late 16th century and who reigned in the 17th.

One of the special creatures the world over is the legendary giant male tortoise found at the Soun's palace, Ogbomoso.

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