He added that the information and communications technology services such as e- commerce, Post - cash (Online transfer), e- registration as well as public Internet access points offered by NIPOST were being explored. Bature, who maintained that the services were not only for communication, also essential for the growth of the economy, said, "people have failed to take advantage of these opportunities, instead they go about with the wrong impression that the post is no longer relevant in today's business. For instance, students in our higher institutions queue up at private cyber cafés for research and e- learning, leaving behind Internet access points provided by the post offices located close to them".
The manager also decried the low patronage of what he described as the cheap parcel services offered by NIPOST.
"The public has also refused to patronize our payment collection services, such as postage stamp duties, which requires that postage stamp of N50.00 must be affixed to every cash receipt issued for payment," he said.
In his paper titled, "The challenges of postal services in Nigeria and the compliance of the stamp duties Act 1990", Director of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in the state, Mr. Bulus Samci Dabit, expressed the agency's readiness to partner with NIPOST to fulfil its mandate.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Mahmud Lalo
Quelle/Source: AllAfrica, 11.10.2010
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