Oyo issues 17,046 digital title documents

…vows to curb building collapse

The Oyo State Government has issued 17,046 digital title documents since the inception of Governor Makinde’s administration in the last six years.

Williams Akin-Funmilayo, Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, who stated this in Ibadan, noted there was the deployment of the Oyo State Property Reference System (OYPRS) for easy identification of properties and payment of land-based taxes, as well as the expansion of the tax net.

The Commissioner who stated this while addressing pressmen at the Omituntun 2.0 Inter-Ministerial Briefing, said in the area of title documents issued, all together, we had about 17,000 plus from 2019 to date.

“Of that number, almost 8,000 were issued within the past two years, which means that about 9,000 were issued in the first term. Out of the number for the last two years, 4,570 were issued in 2024, which was the highest since 2019. In May 2025 alone, we issued 1,008. So, I can tell you that by December this year, we should be able to achieve about 5,000 issuance of these titled documents.”

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He added that the Ministry has also introduced innovations such as the digitisation of property cards and files in the Deeds Registry to protect and preserve historical data as well as the provision of Real Time Kinematic Digital Surveying Equipment for the use of surveyors to enhance surveying in the state.

Other achievements, he noted, include the New Land Use Charge Act, which had been signed and passed into Law, the recruitment of 77 additional staff members into the Ministry to improve efficiency and the payment of compensation to the tune of N935,846,000 to property owners affected by the various infrastructure development projects of the State Government, including the East Wing of the Senator Rashidi Ladoja Circular Road (N260,000,000.00); Ajia Junction Improvement Interchange (N139,000,000.00); Right of way/weigh bridge of Ogbomoso/Iseyin Road (N23,846,000.00) and the Air Force Base, Ajia (513,000,000.00).

While crediting Governor Seyi Makinde’s visionary leadership as the reason behind the State’s increased Internally Generated Revenue, he noted that the opening up of new Government Reservation Areas, digitisation of land allocation and title documents, among other initiatives, resulted in the massive leap experienced in the state’s internal revenue.

According to Akin-Funmilayo, about 15 GRAs were created through the public-private partnership model, while the Ministry also introduced several initiatives, including electronic allocation letters, deployment of online allocation and plot selection on the Ministry of Lands’ website www.lands.oyostate.gov.ng as well as amnesty programme for building permits and deployment of online building permit platform.

He also stated that the Ministry contributed the sum of N4.8 billion to the State’s coffers in 2023, while it achieved N6.1 billion in 2024, with the 2025 revenue generation as of May 15 standing at N3.2 billion.

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The Commissioner said the GRAs opened by the State Government include Lere Adigun GRA, which had been completed, while the Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja GRA, Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi GRA, Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao Akala GRA, Chief Lateef Oyelade GRA, Signature Estate, Woodland Estate, Chief Michael Adeniyi Koleosho GRA, Baywood Gardens, Hon. Akinremi Jagaban GRA, Kolapo Ishola Land Phase II Extension, Akobo, Mokola Hill Top GRA, Tonabim Estate, Oyo GRA and Ogbomoso GRA are all under construction.

“As of today, we have some GRAs that are not yet in the market. The one at Alalubosa is not in the market yet, we are going to sell very soon. The one at the Aerodrome is not yet in the market; we are going to sell it very soon. The one at Agodi Gardens is also not in the market yet.”

He added, “Cumulatively, from January to May 2024, we achieved N2.7 billion, while cumulatively from January to May 2025, we achieved N3.2 billion, which is an increase of about N500 million. For us to record that level of improvement we had to appraise ourselves; we did serious analysis and where corrective measures needed to be taken, we did just that.”