Tag: Nipost

Finally, it seems it has come to the turn of the postal sector to partake in the much-touted Nigerian government reforms programme. In recent newspaper advertisements, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the secretariat of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), is asking qualified firms and organisations to apply for advisory functions.

Specifically, the BPE asked advisers to apply to assist it draft a new national postal sector policy, advise and assist the government in reviewing and developing/designing a new harmonised legal and regulatory framework for the postal sector to allow for private participation and restructuring of NIPOST.

The Bureau is therefore looking for eligible consultants for Expressions of Interests (EOIs) for the purpose of providing advisory services for postal sector reform and restructuring of NIPOST. The advisory services required include, but are not limited to, “formulation of a new postal sector policy/strategy for Nigeria; design and drafting of a new postal sector reform bill; and restructuring of NIPOST.’

In a bid to find relevance in the fast expanding market, especially with mushrooming private courier service providers in the country, the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has intensified its campaign to re-orientate its entire staff towards creating a better delivery system and economic survival.

The Postmaster-General of the Federation, Alhaji Abubakar Musa Argungu, admitted the fact in an address he presented recently at the inauguration of the Edo Territory ServiCom Committee in Benin-City, but promised customers better service under the new progrmamme.

The exercise is in part of the “NIPOST ServiCom Awareness/Public Enlightenment Campaign in the South-South Zone of Nigeria (and it) is part of our efforts to guarantee optimum customer reception in all our post offices throughout the country”, he assured.

Nigerian Postal Services (NiPost) raked in a total of N3,301,050,514.57 as internally generated revenue (IGR) for the year 2004.

Minister of Communication, Chief Cornelius Adebayo who stated this during the official launching of NiPost’s Logo and Postmen Uniform, disclosed that the organization is striving to meet a new target of 48 hours delivery.

Chief Adebayo who reiterated that NiPost has turned out to be an enviable parastatal of the communication ministry, pointed out that apart from being the official courier of the presidency for local and international mail, “NiPost” is now the benchmark for mail circulation in Africa as declared by the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

He explained that NiPost had purchased 359 new motocycles, Eight new Peugeot partner vans, 17 fairly used Starlet cars and four Mitsubishi cargo buses as part of its repositioning effort.