₦airaland Forum

26 Sep 2013
By Emma Okonji

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has disclosed that his passion with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in developing people and economies has paid off, with the state’s monthly internally generated revenue now standing at N1.6 billion. 

The governor said the deployment of ICT in the state has helped to boost its finances. According to him, as soon as he became governor of the state in 2010, he deployed the use of ICT in all government transactions and within a space of one year, its monthly internally generated revenue jumped by 100 per cent, from N300 million to N600 million, and now to N1.6 billion.

Aregbesola, who spoke at a recent telecoms lecture in Lagos tagged Nigerian Telecoms Development Lecture (NITDEL), organised by the Nigerian Telecoms News Magazine, said since his inception as governor of the state, he was able to use ICT to block all loopholes leading to financial leakages in the state, adding that the state now stands on a strong financial ground to serve the people better.

Aregbesola, who delivered a paper at the telecoms lecture with the topic ‘ICT, A Tool for Societal Development,’ urged the federal and state governments to conscientiously deploy ICT in governance to enable Nigerians enjoy its many benefits.

According to him, “Since I became the governor in November 2010, I have given an important place to ICT in the way we run the business of government. One of the first areas of ICT deployment in the State of Osun under my administration was revenue reform. We immediately moved to discard the old methods of payment system and tax administration which were fraught with leakages and loopholes that were exploited to divert revenues that should accrue to the state’s coffers”.

He added, “The result was instant and stunning; our monthly internally generated revenue (IGR) jumped by 100 per cent from N300 million to N600 million in less than one year. We have since moved to consolidate our public finance reforms by deploying an ICT-driven revenue and taxation management system, called the Osun State Government Electronic Banking System of Revenue Cycle Management (OSSG-EBS-RCM), and today our monthly IGR stands at N1.6 billion.”

The system, he said, allowed for online Direct Bank Lodgement System (DBLS) of the revenue collection process. The DBLS, with its communication, database software, accounting and reconciliation and monitoring components, enables the capturing of all payments information and other banking transactions on-line, he said.

The system also generates reconciled cash-book on all banks' accounts for the Accountant General’s office; generates summary and specialised reports for tax stations and other agencies as required; and sets up electronic link between tax stations and other agencies with the central information pool incorporating applicable restrictions, the governor added.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ict-lifts-osun-s-monthly-generated-revenue-to-n1-6bn/159931/

Tolexander: you for PM me to tell me now.
Everybody don sabi my ignorance now.

pafestula: Are you from Adaowode or Ada-ile? although by me is Ibokun ...... back to topic, this phone would bear O'phone!

Tolexander: don't worry bro, all na turn by turn. Likewise my village. When it is done, i shall invite to to ada nikon golf to celebrate!

Tolexander: i do see him live on newspaper anyway.

barcanista: Way to go Suswam, ASUU has turned itself into a political party.

Resume Work or Get fired. No work No chop

Tolexander: Nice work!

I like how this governor is distributing his innovatives throughout the state.
Garment factory in osogbo, palm oil producing factory in ife and now phone manufacturing in ilesa. These are the 3 major towns in osun.

Tolexander: JP! How far, na you be the publicity secretary to the state government of osun abi. I no mind any post o.

Rossikk: Lagos Island IS ''downtown''. What are you talking about?

stebell: Yu Berem, yu are de liar. This info yu posted, was an old news. Stop spreading falsehood in dis forum. Yu and ur likes are always looking for ways to criticize de Govt, while ur Fashola is a saint. I'll only tell yu one tin. Lagos was a former federal capital. Unam

Tolexander: Ife ooye ejigiri
e ji giri ke gbe ife ga
olori aye, ife ooye
e mura lati tesiwaju
oranfe onile ina
ooduwa aweriri jagun
okan lerinwo irunmole
e gbe fe leke ota gbogbo

Ile ife ni orirun aye
ilu asa o, ilu esin
gbogbo yoruba e ka refe
ka wa lo wo oun adayeba tojoju
ile oodua, ife lowa
opa oranyan ile ife ni
odi moremi, ile ife ni
ara e ka re ife orirun aye

emk4lif: So because the story doesn't exactly praise your hero, the story is doubtful, if it was a negative story involving GEJ,the story would most certainly have been true in your eyes and you would have deployed your abusive and irrational instincts into insults...cure your GEJ obsession
Btw, hope Tinubu gets well soon, like him or hate him, he remains a major player in our political system

We confirm that some bill boards of the
candidate to beat, in Anambra 2014 race Senator
Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige ,OON,Onwaaaa, has
been brought down surreptitiously and posters
extensively torn by hoodlums sponsored by the
Anambra State Government Peter Obi and his
faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance
(APGA).

nerodenero: All I see is confusion in all the parties.

ilugunboy: The sun newspaper ?

SMH

Italian Palm Oil Processing Company Relocates To Ile-ife, Osun State.

The Investment drive of the Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to overseas countries in recent times, have continued to yield the much desired results as an Italian Company, Mano Investment and Properties, based in Milan has mobilized to the state to commence the final spadework for the establishment of a palm-oil processing factory in the State of Osun.

Officials of the Italian Company who were in Nigeria during the week made this disclosure during a meeting with Senior Political and Management functionaries of the States Ministry of Environment and Sanitation and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security at the New Secretariat Complex, Gbongan road.

Head of the Italian Firm’s delegation to the meeting, Dr. Les Beaumont, who is also the Italian firm’s Project Coordinator, informed the Senior State functionaries that, himself together with other officials of the company will be in the state for two weeks to undertake the necessary feasibility studies and other arrangements for submission to their parent company in Italy for actual commencement of work at the project site in Ile-Ife, before the end of the on-going raining season.

Dr. Beaumont also informed the meeting that based on the preliminary reports earlier communicated to the parent company in Italy, the project financier of the Oil Processing Firm being targeted for the State of Osun, will be meeting in November to consider the report to be written on the project for final release of money for the immediate take-off of the project before the year runs out.

Representative of the Italian based firm, who is also the Managing Director, Venture Alliance Offshore Partners Nig. Ltd., Mr. David Famoriyo, also informed the meeting that, the Italian firm has various projects in Ghana, Port Harcourt and Abeokuta in specific agricultural and non-agricultural commodity products.

In their separate responses at the meeting, the State’s Commissioner for Environment and Sanitation, Prof. Olubukola Oyawoye and the Special Adviser to Governor on Agriculture and Food Security, Mr. Festus Agunbiade on behalf of the State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, assured the Italian firm of the State Government’s maximum cooperation that will be enable the firm commence work quickly in the state, and provide employment to the state’s able-bodied citizens.

Also present at the meeting were Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Sanitation, Mr. Dayo Olaluwoye, Directors and Staff of both the Ministry of Environment and Sanitation and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security respectively.

agbameta: Ringing bell at the NYSE is beneath the president of Nigeria or any president, but to the dullard, anything is good to go. I bet they paid some NY firm millions of dollars to lobby for this silliness.

Just picture this joker at the NYSE with his goofy smile, halloween uniform and undertaker hat...


This odeshuku don suffer...lmao

taharqa: People who kill themselves cos of these politicians (on all sides) need to check themselves by themselves...