Tanke is a community in the city of Ilorin, which is the capital of Kwara State, Nigeria. Tanke is located at Ilorin South. It is a residential area off the University Road, in the city of Ilorin. The community is a settlement which is mostly occupied by students of the University of Ilorin.

Get in

By plane

• 1 Ilorin International Airport (ILR  ^IATA) (10 km from the centre of Ilorin). (updated Jan 2022)

By road

• Taxi
• Tricycle

Get around

• Taxi
• Shuttle bus
• Tricycle
• Motor bikes

See

• 1 Clay pot, No.6 Beatrice Anike Street, off University Road, beside Bovas Filling Station. everyday from 10AM-3AM. ClayPot is one of the cool places to visit in Ilorin. It is located at 6, Beatrice Anike Street, off University Road, beside Bovas Filling Station, Tanke Oke-Odo. (updated Jan 2022)

Buy

• 1 Jubilee Shopping Complex, Tanke Rd, junction 240102. 24 hours. (updated Jan 2022)

Eat

• 1 Item 7, Tanke Rd at Obaleye St, ☏ +234 903 883 0675. Daily 9AM-11PM. Item7 Takeaway Restaurant is a food joint with a specialty in the sales of party jollof rice, snacks, shawarma, barbecue fish, and pastries. (updated Jan 2022)

Drink

• Oluwatomisin Next Level Store, Tanke junction, behind Royalton Palace Hotel, ☏ +234 803 150 7250. everyday from 8AM- 8PM. Sells different types of drinks like water, wine, juice, soda, soft drink and spirit. (updated Jan 2022)

Sleep

• 1 Royalton Palace Hotel, 4 Station Road G.R.A Off University/Tanke Road, ☏ +234 803 950 6002. Check-in: noon, check-out: noon. Royalton Palace Hotel offers lavishly furnished rooms of different categories. All rooms are fully air-conditioned with comfortable beds, flat-screen TV, refrigerators, and en-suite bathrooms. The Presidential Suite has a kitchenette and a minibar. Facilities available in the hotel include Wi-Fi, a restaurant, an on-site bush bar, ample parking space, a business center, an event hall, and an uninterrupted power supply. Additional services on request include 24-hour room service, laundry/dry cleaning service, car hire, ironing, and safety deposit services. ₦8,000. (updated Jan 2022)

Connect

All major mobile phone service networks are available in Tanke but with varying degree of reliability and usability. It is usual to occasionally experience network outage for some of the mobile phone service providers. It is also common for different networks to be more stable and reliable in different locations of the city at different times.

if you are planning a visit to this city, you should consider having multiple SIM cards preferably for all the mobile service providers, since you can't tell which will be more stable and reliable at a time in your location during your visit. And if you will risk not having any of them, you might be better off not risking the MTN network, because, from indications, it seem to perform well than the others, though its rates may be high and its offers and services might be stringent, but you are less likely to be concerned of erratic voice and data connection compared to others. The various broadband cellular network available include 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. And unlike many other cities in the country, there is a wider coverage of the 4G network in most locations in the city.

One of the service providers is Glo (or Globacom), which boasts of fast network speed for internet browsing activities, but that might not be enjoyable in some locations in Tanke. Airtel is fairly good for all you might need, but you might experience network outage most times, the rates and network stability is satisfactory. And 9mobile usually also performs well in internet browsing speed but not without locational limitations.

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