Nigeria Postal Service
The Courier Regulatory Department, CRD, of the Nigerian Postal
Service, NIPOST, has revoked licences of 30 courier companies in
the country.
The General Manager, CRD, Ishaya Diwa, made the disclosure at a
media briefing in Lagos on Thursday.
Mr Diwa said that the licences of the companies were revoked
because the operators were not complying with the rules and
regulations governing courier services.
“For the past two years, the CRD of NIPOST has consistently been
trying to sanitise the courier industry with its continuous events
such as clamping down of companies.
“We need our courier operators in the country to work with the
best standard as courier business is a worldwide business and any
form of infringement will tell bad for the country.
“This revocation is also a means of making the environment
conducive and worthwhile for operators to thrive,’’ he said.
He said that the revoked courier operators were spread across
the country but the majority of them were in Lagos.
Mr Diwa said that the criteria for revoking the licences were
based on lack of renewal of licence upward to three years and
activities did not in tandem with rules and regulations of
NIPOST.
He, however, cautioned the public to be aware of the revoked
operators and desist from working with them.
Mr Diwa said that revoking an operator’s licence was not a death
sentence.
He said that if an operator changed the mode of operations, it
would have to meet certain criteria, pay the backlog of the
penalty; before it would be taken back.
Mr Diwa said that the biggest challenge facing the CRD was that
the smaller operators did not have fixed addresses where they would
be seen physically.
He said that economic reasons were good reasons for the
operators to be cutting corners.
“The department has always been relaxed in enforcing rules but
unfortunately Nigerians like to take advantage of things with
impunity.
“It is good to have a small and neat courier business in the
country than having the proliferation of services.
“Presently, we have 108 courier companies that are healthy and
financially stable unlike when they were 300.
“The operators renewal fees in the country is about the cheapest
in the world; N350, 000 in a year. It is just that our people like
taking short corners and that is not good for business,’’ Mr Diwa
said.
He listed: Abex Express, Benop Courier Ltd., Best Courier Ltd.,
Betkey International Venture Ltd., B-Flex Express Service Ltd.,
Blue Star Courier and Logistics Services Ltd., Business Messenger
Nigeria Ltd., Dealdey Swift Ltd., and Fair Plus.
Others are: Fleet Courier Ltd., Gbuzzorr Delivery Service,
Greater Washington Capital Ltd., Green White Express Logistics, IMO
Transport, Kaoline Ventures Ltd., Macdon Express Courier Ltd, Migfo
Express Courier Freight, Okoli Express, and Vee Express Delivery
Services.
The remaining ones are: One-on-One Parcels Ltd., Pele Express,
Quick Link Express, Quo Courier and Logistics, Skyhigh Express
Nigeria Ltd., Speed Express Courier Ltd., Speed Mails Express Ltd.,
Speedmark Courier, Thanet Deliveries, Total Quality Express
Services, and Universe Courier.
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