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OYO Rooms (stylised as OYO), also known as OYO Hotels & Homes, is an Indian multinational hospitality chain of leased and franchised hotels, homes, and living spaces. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Founded in 2012 by Ritesh Agarwal , OYO initially consisted mainly of budget hotels. [ 1 ]
In 2011, Agarwal founded an Airbnb equivalent called "Oravel Stays". [17] [18] Agarwal's enterprise was accelerated through the Venture Nursery program in 2012, and was later one of the winners of the 2013 Thiel Fellowship, receiving a US$100,000 grant. [19] [20] The company launched as OYO Rooms in May 2013. [21] [22] [3]
Oyo was able to purchase horses from the north and maintain them in metropolitan Oyo because of partial freedom from the tsetse fly. [37] Cavalry was the long arm of the Oyo Empire. Late 16th and 17th century expeditions were composed entirely of cavalry. [ 17 ]
Oyo Empire, a former Yoruba state that covered parts of Nigeria and Benin, or the capital city; Oyo State, a present-day state of Nigeria named after the Oyo Empire; Oyo, Oyo State, a city founded in the 1830s as an alternative capital of the remnants of the old Oyo empire
Oyo, Oyo State, is the seat of the line of the rulers of Oyo.Their territory, a constituent rump state, is located in what is now Nigeria.Since the 1900 political absorption into Southern Nigeria of the kingdom that it once served as a metropolitan center, the traditional monarchy has been either a tool of British indirect rule or a legally recognised traditional polity within the republic of ...
Oyo [1] is a city in Oyo State, Nigeria.It was founded as the capital of the remnant of the historic Oyo empire in the 1830s, and is known to its people as 'New Oyo' (Ọ̀yọ́ Àtìbà) to distinguish it from the former capital to the north, 'Old Oyo' (Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé), which had been deserted as a result of the Yoruba Revolutionary Wars.
Oyo is a state in southwestern Nigeria.Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. [8] Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State for 337 km, to the southeast by Osun State for 187 km, partly across the River Osun, and to the south by Ogun State, and to the west by the Republic of Benin for 98 km.
Oyo State: Oyo State: 3 February 1976 Western State: Plateau State: 3 February 1976 Benue-Plateau State: Rivers State: 27 May 1967 Bendel State: Sokoto State: 3 February 1976 North-Western State: Taraba State: 27 August 1991 Gongola State: Yobe State: 27 August 1991 Borno State: Zamfara State: 1 October 1996 Sokoto State: Federal Capital ...