NIPOST Assures Of Better Service Delivery

The Postmaster-General, Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST), Malam Ibrahim Mori-Baba, has assured Nigerians of improved postal services in under-served areas of the country.
Mori-Baba gave the pledge during an interview with newsmen in Lagos, recently.
He said that the agency was committed to meeting the demands of NIPOST users, nationwide.
The NIPOST chief said that the agency was repositioning to bridge the gaps between the served and the under-served areas, to ensure that the rural communities benefited from modern postal services.
Mori-Baba said that the move was necessary because not everybody in the rural areas could afford to patronise the international courier companies in sending their mails.
“What we are doing now is to look at the gaps between the served and under-served areas, so that the communities would be able to benefit from modern postal services.
“Also, as far as the present age of information is concerned, internet users can surf the internet in the NIPOST offices.
“This is what we want to ensure that we put in place in almost all the post offices, nationwide, so that those who cannot afford to have computers, internet and printers, can go to the nearest post office.’’
He said that the user should be able to make enquiries on the Internet, download the printed hard copies and send the document through NIPOST facilities.
Mori-Baba said that NIPOST would soon establish more cybercafés in all the post offices nationwide, to meet the demand of its users.
“The post office is a community-based agency everywhere in the world, not only in Nigeria.
“What we do is to ensure that government information and other things happening are carried to the grassroots.
“Because it is not everybody that can afford the services of the international courier companies. Government comes in to ensure that there is something in place that the citizenry can rely on,” he said.
The Postmaster-General, however, noted that NIPOST relied heavily on national infrastructure such as power, Internet services, and transportation, to meet the demands of its users.
“In doing this, we are not working on our own; we have to rely on the national infrastructure such as power and Internet connectivity.
“Hence, we cannot achieve our plans without the support of other government agencies,” he added.