Tag: Nigeria

NIPOST Reads Riot Act to Unregistered Courier Firms

Posted by | Jan 3, 2008 | |

Post Master General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), Alhaji Ibrahim Mori Baba, said the Agency would continue to clamp down on unregistered courier companies.

Baba stated this during the opening of the new office complex of Bowill Errands Limited in Lagos.

Debunking the claim that the parastatal had been ‘soft’ on unlicenced courier operators, the Post Master General, represented by Mr Julius Anjorin of the Courier Regulatory Department, said NIPOST had always been on the trail of illegal courier operators.

According to him, the issue at stake here is that in pursuing these unlicenced operators, we have to strictly follow laid down guidelines, so that we won’t be faced with unwarranted litigations. We have to be very careful in our ‘war’ against them, so that we won’t have series of litigations in our hands.

NIPOST’s claim, saying “the end of illegal courier firms was near,” adding that most of the companies who patronise do so out of ignorance.

Oladapo, who is also General Secretary of Association of Nigeria Courier Operators said: “There is no proliferation of courier companies. “The Nigerian economy, given its size, population and volume of economic activities can still accommodate more courier companies,” he said, and applauded the economic reform policies of former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

“The financial sector reform has had tremendous impact on the economy, especially the recapitalisation of the banks. Banks now have enough funds and because they must manage their liquidity with profitability, they can’t just keep this funds idle.

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Nigeria: Nipost Generates N 5b as Revenue

Posted by | Oct 10, 2007 | |

The Nigerian Postal Service said it has realized the sum of N 3,836,021,089.88 in 2006 fiscal year. According to the organization, another sum of N 1, 983, 335, 606.28 was also generated between January and June this year.

Postmaster general of the federation, Mallam Ibrahim Mori, announced this yesterday in Abuja at the ceremony to mark this years’ World Postal Day. According to Mori Baba, the sum of N 3,836,021,089.88 realized in 2006 fell short of the total projection of N 4,117,654,000 in the year.

Although, NIPOST earned N 1, 983, 335, 606.28 revenue between January and June 2007, the Postmaster General said the amount equally fell short of N 2, 274, 528, 000.00 budgeted for the period.

Despite the inability of the organization to meet the revenue target set for itself, Mori Baba still insisted that NIPOST management is in the right direction.

Launching the new vehicles, the Minister of Information and Communication, Mr John Odey said the 25 vehicles were purchased at the cost of N 56, 481, 875.00 through the Universal Postal Union Quality of Service funds.

Speaking further, the Minister disclosed that the Federal Government has engaged NetPost of consultancy of the Netherlands to work out specific and acceptable reform programme for the NIPOST.

According to Odey, the objectives of the postal reform include: to formulate a postal sector policy strategy, to design and develop a postal legislation, to establish an independent sector regulator and to restructure NIPOST into new business units.

1 US Dollar = 126.890 Nigerian Naira

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Papu: Postal union for rural services

Posted by | Sep 13, 2007 | |

PAN African Postal Union (Papu) has urged postal service providers to concentrate on developing more operations in rural areas on the continent where there is little or no availability of advanced communication.

The appeal was made yesterday in Blantyre by Papu’s Assistant Secretary General Rhoda Masaviru during the official opening of the fourth African Support Committee to the organisation of the congress of Universal Postal Union (UPU) to be held in Kenya in 2008.

Masaviru said the success of the congress in Nairobi would depend on the strategies to be adopted on the current challenges that range from revenue, terminal dues to mail dispatch.

In her opening remarks Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati urged all participating countries to ensure that the agenda of the UPU congress reflects training for postal personnel including maximizing access to rural masses.

She added that the current meeting must come up with factual and practical objectives ahead of the meeting in Kenya that should see Africa making progress in the sector for the next four years after 2008.

Over 30 African countries that include Ghana, Nigeria Tanzania, Rwanda, Botswana, Zimbabwe are attending the meeting in Blantyre which is expected to wind up today.

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Nigeria: Courier operators canvass for inclusion in postal committee

Posted by | Sep 4, 2007 | |

Larry Chinekezi, managing director of Tradeways Express, who is also the Chairman, Board of Trustee, ANCO, said the current committee is made up of members drawn from the Ministry of Communications and the Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST).

According to him, the committee is more interested in developing the postal sub-sector while not addressing issues that has to do with courier and logistics operation.

He therefore called for invitation of stakeholders by the committee in order to be acquainted with the challenges facing the courier and logistics sub-sector.

These sectors he noted include courier, postal and the Ministries of Communications and Aviation.

He said courier business drives the economy through facilitating e-commerce and communications and involves haulage, cargo services which involve clearing and forwarding.

He lamented the provision in the postal bill that mandates postal service operators to pay a percentage of their profit into the Ministry’s coffers, stating that with the dichotomy in the attention given to the different sub operations under the communications ministry, profit from the courier arm of their businesses would only be used to service the postal sub-sector, leaving the courier sub-sector with its challenges.

Chinekezi further charged the Ministry of Communications to look at ways of liaising with the relevant authorities and Ministries in addressing such challenges as bad roads and power, which are the major issues confronting courier business in Nigeria.

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