Nigerian city celebrates its many twins with annual festival

Twins Oladapo Taiwo, left, and Oladapo Kehinde, 21, pose for photographs holding relatives’ twins during the Annual twin festival in Igbo-Ora, south-west Nigeria (AP)

A Nigerian city with an unusually high number of twins has celebrated the phenomenon at an annual festival.

Nearly every family in the south-western city of Igbo-Ora has twins or other multiple births, according to local chief Jimoh Titiloye.