African traditional religion predated the advent of Islam and Christianity. The Ogus were predominantly traditional worshipers. The Ogus worshiped characters you find as deities of the Yorubas like the Ifa and Sango but they had Vothun that is like their national deity to whom they pay a great deal of respect. Vothun has structural similarities to other African religion such as the Yoruba gods. For example, the Ogu Vothun is the Yoruba Orisha; while Hervioso finds perfect counterpart in the Yoruba Sango, god of thunder.

Vothun evolved from the peoples’ personal experience. Each person is born into it, live it, practices it, and proud to make it his or her own. Vothun has no written literature yet it is encased in Oral history; folktales; songs; in proverbs / pithy sayings. The presence of Vothun is expressed in natural phenomenon e.g. Sakpata: god of smallpox; or Hevioso: god of thunder; Zamaponwhe: god of fire or Gu: god of war and iron, to mention but a few.

However, aside the traditional religion, Badagry experienced intensive evangelical campaign by world religions in which Islam is one. Before Christianity was introduced in the middle eighteenth century, Islam had come to Badagry but with few adherents. The exact date which Islam came to Badagry is not known. However, traders from the collapsed old Oyo Empire might have brought the religion and they settled in Badagry to practice their religion without being molested. It was however recorded that Christian missionaries landed at Badagry on 24^th September, 1842.

Today, there is freedom to practice any kind of religion within the Badagry Local Government Area.