Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government was created along side others by the former maximum ruler, late Gen. Sanmi Abacha, on October 1, 1996. Having been carved out of Agege Local Government with its headquarter at Ifako.
However, with the creation of additional 37 Councils from the old 20 Local Governments in the State by Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Administration in 2003, and subsequent establishment of a General Hospital for the area, the council’s headquarter moved to Aina-Ajobo Street, Ogba, its present location.
The origins of the early of the Local Government Area are Egbas, Aworis and others. The founders of Ifako, Iju, Ijaiye, Abule-Egba, etc. Are direct descendants of the Egba where they used as their farm-land. Most of them lived at Agege, Mushin, Ikeja, and even, Ota in Ogun State. In the advent of rapid development during the oil boom days, when people started looking for land to build their own houses, farmlands started giving ways to residential and industrial houses. However, the vast expanse of land acquired for Government farmland remained there, hence, the naming of one of the settlements as Oko-Oba (Government Farm Land). Today, the large farmland at Ifako, Iju, Oko-Oba, Abule-Egba, and Ojokoro, are now a sprawling metropolitan developing city with little distinct boundaries around towns.
The main communities that makes of the Local Government Area are; Iju-Ishaga, Iju Station, Iju-Ogundimu, Iju, Obawole, Ifako, Ifako-Ijaiye-Ogba, Oke-Ira, Akure, and Ajuwon.
