Kiriji War

Kiriji War ; (Ogun Kírìjí)
Date	July 30, 1877– March 14, 1893 ; (15 years and 227 days)
Location	Yorubaland, now Southwestern Nigeria
Result	Military Stalemate Ekiti people gain independence on September 23, 1886; Fighting persists between the Ibadan and the Ilorin kingdoms; British-Ijebu War; Capture of Ilorin by Royal Niger Company in 1897; Siege of Oyo;
Territorial; changes	Subsequent colonisation and annexation of Yorubaland by the British Empire into the Southern Nigeria Protectorate;
Belligerents
Western Yoruba (Ibadan): Ibadan; Iwo Kingdom; Igbajo, and other Oyo Yoruba towns in the region formerly under the Old Oyo; Offa Kingdom; Modakeke;	Eastern Yoruba (Ekiti-Parapo): Ijesha kingdom; Ekiti confederacy, including the Akure Kingdom; Akoko confederacy; Egba kingdom, the city state of Abeokuta; Ijebu Kingdom; Ila Kingdom and the Igbomina confederacy; Ilorin Emirate; Ife Kingdom;
Commanders and leaders
Obadoke Latoosa, Aare Ona Kakanfo of Ibadan †; Ajayi Ogboriefon, Balogun †; Babalola Ajayi; Kupolu †; Balogun Ali of Iwo; Balogun Ajayi Osungbekun;	Fabunmi of Okemesi, later Owa Ooye of Imesi-Ile; Ogedengbe of Ilesa; Odu of Ogbagi-Akoko; Ogunmodede of the Ijesha; Karara of Ilorin; Adeyale of Ila and the Igbomina; Olugbosun of Oye; Erinfolami Agbenijabiogun Fakuade of Oye; Onafowokan of Ijebu; Ologun of Owo; Ogunbulu of Aisegba;
Strength
Estimated 180,000 (Ibadan)	75,000 (Ekiti); 30,000 (Ife)
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The Kiriji War, also known as the Ekiti–Parapo War, was a 16-year-long civil war between the subethnic kingdoms of the Yoruba people, specifically divided between the Western Yoruba, which was mainly the Ibadan and Oyo-speaking Yorubas, and the Eastern Yoruba, who were the Ekiti people, Ijesha, Ijebu people, and others.