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 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY OF THE MONTH MAY. The month of May is ordinarily like any and every other. It runs through its allotted number of weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. And as usual human beings carried out their daily activities. And characteristically, a lot happened therein: good, bad, ugly and the unspeakable. But May of this year has so many memorable events that shaped the month and thereby make it unforgettable.       VICTOR OSIMHEN: The month began on a good, promising and fulfilling note with two of our youths doing the country proud in distant lands, oyinbo man's country, Europe-Italy and London to be precise. First was the feat atrained by our only world-class footballer: dark-skinned, tall, lanky and speedy striker Victor Osimhen of Napoli football club. The young guy helped Napoli to win the Scudetto, breaking a 37 year jinx in the process and thereby replicating the feat attained by the inimitable Argentine playmaker Diego Amando Maradona. He did wha

   Ondo IGR Has Improved from N700M Monthly To N3.3B In Six Years – Akeredolu  Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu  has disclosed that the State Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS) IGR has systematically increased the state’s IGR  from N700Million per month in 2017 when our administration came onboard to N3.3billion per month in 2023. Akeredolu stated this in a message to the closing ceremony of an international training for staff of ODIRS on understanding principle of international taxation  by London Academy Business School. The governor, who was represented by the state Head of Service (HoS), Pastor  Kayode Ogundele, said his administration placed special emphasis of public service advancement and improvement in the quality of staff and their training and promotions. Akeredolu said that over 300 staff of ODIRS which had been a recurring one has been boosting the IGR of the state over the years. “I wish to state here, based on the information I received and approval given so far,

ODIRS Enforces Traffic Law, Books Vehicles In Ondo    Ondo State Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS) in collaboration with relevant security agencies have booked over 35 vehicles in Akure, and other local governments of the state.  This was a follow-up to tge enforcement exercise carried out across the state.  In a chat with newsmen, the ODIRS State Licencing Officer, Mr Olajide Samuel Olugbenga, said the enforcement exercise becomes imperative to ensure that vehicle owners comply with the traffic law.  Olugbenga explained that every vehicles plying government roads must be duly registered with valid documents, adding that they were out to ensure vehicle owners comply with the traffic rules. According to him, “due to the security situation in th state we have to check  the validity of the vehicles plying our roads, as criminals are making use of vehicles with invalid document. It will be hard to track a vehicle with invalid document. During the enforcement exercise we have seen many

  A POSTSCRIPT:  HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, AYO OWOEYE, (MATADOR DAFON): EPITOME OF FOCUS, DISCIPLINE, DEDICATION AND DETERMINATION. Asuretete nii woju ojo, aringbere nii woju awon ero Since he marked his birthday a few days ago, my imagination has been buzzing with the much I know about whom and what this man has become. The more I try to evade writing about him, the stronger the feeling became. What qualifies me to put pen on paper about him? My first contact, which was formal in every sense of the word, took place in 1982, when the late John Famadeji, alias Charity Photo took me there to 'see', Mr. Kola Owoeye, the owner of Mak Owoeye Pharmacy.  Four years later, I was there again, this time as a friend of his nephew, Yinka Owoeye. Since then, Ayo Owoeye has taken as his blood-brother. At a time I was in the valley as a laundry man, he was my number one customer.  When I dabbled into book-selling, he patronised me. The bottomline is that egbon Ayo has never behaved as a big man