| Okuta | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Nigeria |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Nigeria |
| Coordinates: | 9.2199°N 3.2005°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Nigeria |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | Local government area |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kwara State |
| Subdivision Name2: | Baruten |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population Total: | 26,589[1] |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
Okuta is a town located in the Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria.
Okuta is located about 300km (200miles) north of Lagos, and about 170km (110miles) northwest of Kwara State's capital of Ilorin. Internationally, Okuta is located around 8km (05miles) from the Beninese border.
Edidi is currently under the rulership of His Royal Majesty, Alhaji Idris Abubakar Seropetete lll as of 2019.[2]
Festivals in Edidi include:
Okuta Ilorin was documented in the 16th century long ago before the invention of sharpening steels for knives. A man known as Ojo Isekuse who was one of the founding fathers of Ilorin devised a method for sharpening his knives with the use of a stone. It was from the activity of the knife sharpening that the name of the town Ilorin was formed.[4]