Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) through its Courier Regulatory Department, has revoked licenses of 10 courier operators over non-renewal of their respective licenses. See the list of the companies:
Speaking to journalists at NIPOST headquarters (annex) in Lagos, the Senior Assistant Post-Master General of NIPOST and Head of CRD, Dr. Simon Emeje, said that the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) through its Courier Regulatory Department, has revoked licenses of over 10 courier operators over non-renewal of their respective licenses. The 10 courier operators' licenses were revoked after they have been severally notified to renew their licenses.
They includes:
- Imo Transport Company Limited
- Kwara State Express
- Associated Bus Company (ABC)
- Arrowhead Courier Limited
- Evergreen Worldwide
- Imo Transport Company Limited
- MDS Logistics Limited
- MIGFO Express Courier Limited
- Montesine Limited
- NACFA Express Limited
- Quadral Express Limited and
- Tide Express Link Limited.
Others are Royal Ryders Express, Success Transport, Kwara Express, all located in Kwara State and Kasmag Express of Kasmag Transport located at Ijora, Lagos State.
With the latest development, the number of registered courier operators in Nigeria has downsized to 283, according to NIPOST.
According to him, NIPOST, in its magnanimity, waited for four years before embarking on the exercise and explained that customers who still do business after the revocation order, stands a big risk, as the operators could be visited at any time by the CRD surveillance team, who will confiscate all items found in their offices, and proceed to prosecute the operators, if found operating behind sealed doors.
"We are mandated to play a level playing ground for all operators which we have been pursing without fear or favour. The ten courier operators have been warned severally, in fact, in the last four years, to come and renew their license.
We deem it unethical and unhealthy for the general public to continue to patronize them, because they have lost in touch with realities in the industry.
For you to continue rendering courier services, you have to obtain a license, renew the license every year. That allows NIPOST to continue to monitor your operations and ensure you do not lose touch with the operational guidelines in the industry”.
According to NIPOST, renewal of licence fee is once yearly and it costs N350, 000 to renew licences of indigenous local courier operators, N500, 000 for indigenous/international courier operators and N1.5 million for foreign international courier operators.