Mass sack imminent in NIPOST

A radical reform of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) in which many of its staff may lose their jobs will soon begin, Daily Trust has learnt.

But the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, said that there would not be any retrenchment in the NIPOST, “at least, for now”.

A top federal government official told our reporter in Abuja, yesterday, that the new Postal Master General (PMG), Asiwaju Bisi Adegbuyi, had been given directive to reduce, at least, 1000 workers from the agency’s workforce.

NIPOST has a workforce of about 10, 500 and 2, 500 post offices and postal agencies across the country.

The official, who pleaded anonymity because he was not cleared by his superiors to speak on the matter, said that staffers who had put in 30 years, or close to that, in service, and those working in inactive NIPOST post offices would be largely affected.

Daily Trust, August 10

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