The Post Master General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Postal Services, Dr. Ismail Adebayo Adewusi, has said that Nigeria has all it takes to maintain world class postal service if its resources are properly harnessed.
Adewusi, was quoted as stating this shortly after the conclusion of the Council of Administrations meeting of the Universal Postal Union held in Berne, Switzerland on Friday.
The statement was signed by the General Manager, (Corporate Communications), Franklin Alao.
The statement added that it is this harnessing of the resources of NIPOST to rejuvenate the organization into a world class standard that has been the preoccupation since assumption of office the Chief Executive Officer.
Explaining that the Universal Postal Union offers veritable avenue for peer reviews, the NIPOST boss said the meeting that rounded up on Friday was another eye-opener to the various strategies to make NIPOST live up to its billing as a logistics organization with great capacities.
“Most of the discussions here centre around the sustainability of the Universal Postal Union operations across member countries of 192 nations.
Several Task forces presented reports of their meetings and observations were taken by member states followed by observer members.
“The reports were adopted by the Council of Administrations (CA) for presentation to Congress coming up on August 2020 in Cote D’ Voire.
“Also, from the very highly professional papers that have been presented by experts in Postal Operations across the globe on such technical matters as Financial inclusion strategy, e-commerce, one is left with no doubt that we only need to get our acts together in order to make NIPOST an effective service delivery organization,” Adewusi said
The statement noted that the CEO, who resumed in December 2019, has been working towards reawakening of the organization especially in line with the ongoing reforms embarked upon by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.
“The CEO recognizes how crucial NIPOST effectiveness is to the realization of the overall objectives of digital economy of the Muhammadu Buhari administration as supervised by the Minister, Dr. Ali Patanmi,” the statement explained further