Afijio is a Local Government Area in Oyo State, Nigeria.

Second, in 1981, the entire area was merged with Oyo Local Government before it was reestablished as an autonomous political entity in May 1989 under the name Afijio, which is an acronym for Awe, Akinmoorin, Fiditi, Ilora, Imini, Jobele, Iware, Iluaje, Oluwatedo, and Ojutaye, the major towns that comprise the Local Government.

Nonetheless, traditional believers operate freely within the council's jurisdiction.

The indigenous people of Afijio Local Government are largely farmers who grow a wide range of agricultural goods such as maize, yam, cassava, groundnut, fruit, cocoa and oil palm.

[4] The Afijio local government region has an average temperature of 28.5 degrees Celsius and a total size of 722 km squared.