Category: Ondo State

Ondo State Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS) has told hoteliers in the State that it only commenced collection of Consumption Tax but not Value Added Tax. Some hoteliers had written to the agency that they would wait for the court to make a pronouncement on who is responsible for collecting VAT before making any payment. Chairman […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission on Friday tracked empowerment items given out to rural women in Owo/Ose and Idanre/Ifedore Federal Constituencies of Ondo State. The items, worth N113.5 million, were given out under Constituency Project Empowerment Programmes. The items tracked included 75 grinding machines, 95 hairdryers, 100 barbing clippers and 68 […]

Few hours after the 17 Governors of Nigeria’s Southern Region insisted on collecting the Value Added Tax, VAT, in their respective states,  Ondo State Government on Thursday vowed to implement the law as it relates to the collection of the tax in the state. Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the state, who also doubles as the […]

Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu Operatives of Ondo State Security Network Agency, code-named Amotekun, have rescued the remaining three people who were abducted last Wednesday in the state. The victims, who were among the 12 passengers that were attacked by the bandits at the bad portion of the road, were whisked away into the bush […]

Ondo State Governor and Chairman of South-West Governors’ Forum, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has vowed to enforce anti open grazing law operating in the state. He insisted that his administration would not hesitate to decisively deal with any offender who flouts the anti-open grazing law, which he recently signed, even as he warned the Miyetti Allah Cattle […]

Communities in the Ondo South Senatorial District of Ondo State have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over 10 years of blackout in the district. Hundreds of communities in the district, which comprises six local government areas, have been without electricity for over 10 years. In their petition, they alleged that the communities have been disconnected from […]

Police Inspector General, Usman Alkali Baba A 45-year-old woman, identified only as Mrs Folasade, has been arrested by men of the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly killing her tenant, Mrs Omolola Oladipupo, during a scuffle in the kitchen. Folasade was said to be the landlady of a house on Taotao Street, in the Lotogbe […]

Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Donald Ojogo, on Tuesday, declared that the state government was doing everything possible to ensure that the residents of the state are free of the deadly coronavirus disease, hence it makes vaccination compulsory for all. The state executive council on Monday announced that every adult resident in […]