The courier regulatory department (CRD) of the Nigerian Postal Service
(NIPOST), at the weekend, revoked the courier operational licences of Aero
Contractors and 13 other courier companies for non-renewal of their licences. The
CRD also clamped down on six other courier operators in Lagos and Ilorin in
Kwara State, for operating courier business without obtaining operational
licences, thereby defrauding government of huge sums of money. Announcing the
revocation order shortly after the clampdown at the weekend in Lagos, Senior
Assistant Postmaster General and Head of CRD, Dr. Simon Emeje explained that
the licences of the 14 courier operating companies were revoked, following
their refusal to renew their licences for up to a period of five to five years
running, unperturbed. He listed 13 others whose licences were revoked to
include Abia Line Courier, Akro Express, AMDS Nigeria Limited, Arrowhead
Courier Limited, Askol Nigeria Limited, Base Aviation Systems, and Ben Courier.
Others are Best Courier, Beta Courier Services Limited, Bright Eminent Express
Limited, Bruno Courier Services, Cenok Express and Global Express. "The 14
courier operators hereby seize to operate courier business in the country
because of their involvement in unethical practice, which the regulatory body
frowns to. The General public should take note of this and desist from doing
courier business with the listed companies in the country," Emeje
said. He 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. According to him, 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. Thisday (online)
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