To support the sustainable developmentgoals of the FederalGovernment, the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) is providingrural banking to its customersthrough partnership with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Its General manager, E -commerce and Logistics,Kunle Oladapo, dropped the hintat the Lagos Trade Fair,where he explainedthat financialinstitutionslike NIRSAL will be at the counters to attend to customers.

Oladayo noted that NIPOST is developing micro finance banks so that customers can access soft loans to boost their business.

He explained that the micro finance system is not limitedto PoS alone.

“We have counter transactions where you can save your money and apply for soft loans. Most of the banking activitieswill be carried out in our offices.”

“ NIPOST is supportingsustainable developmentgoals by providingrural banking to the unbaked through partnership with Central Bank of Nigeria eg NIrSAL at our counters.”

The NIPOST boss added that the spread of post offices was an added advantageto her businessof post cashand international financial service, saying “our counters have been automated with the latest ICT facilities, making it easy for customers to receive and transfer their money to any part of the country at the shortest possible time.

He disclosed that NIPOST is leveraging on technologyto diversify and enhance her services which can be seen in different areas of its operation.

“It is pertinent to inform you thatNIPOST has developed markets to move the economyforward in line with the best practices world wide.

“This can be seen in its drive of socio-economic development throughonline facility for producers of made-in-Nigeria goods to send their items and deliver those dispatches from other countriesthroughe-commerce.”

He added that it also operates warehousing of goods in some post offices in northern part of the country.

Oladapo noted that the MSMEs are taking advantageof the service’s competitive rates to deliver goods to their customersall over the world, noting that NIPOST e-commerceand e-logisticsventures are graduallytaking a centre place in businessnetworking.

Since Nigeria is placing premium in developing SMEs, he saidwhen they are developed, it would create more jobs.

“With the current event in the businessworld,everything is tending towards IT with a lot of emphasis on the development of MSMEs.

“NIPOST recognises that fact,we are tailoringour efforts towards bringing up the MSMEs because that is the only way we can developour business too. We are also laying emphasis on ensuring quality of service too and last mile delivery.

“By the time we bring in these enterprises,we will have a lot to do and this will generate more revenue for us.Nigerians can trust NIPOST for the best delivery of their items, as we are leveraging on IT.

“We have put in place internationalPostal System (IPS) and Integrated Postal System (IPMS) to improveon our postal system. IPS has the abilityto trackyour items until they get to the deliverypoint.

“We have also included a securitymodule on all our tracking platforms, so that issues of missing items don’tcome up again.”(Daily Sun)