Nigerian Postal Service, no matter the way you look at it, either as a fledgling government organization that has been criticized round and square as remaining bellicose in spite of the enormous government investment on it, or as an extended appendage of the Universal Postal Union whose interest is to provide universal service in the context of being the national carrier in the postal sector , the postal institution in Nigeria  has as far as  postal administration is concerned at the world stage and in Africa,  remained a great enabler .
The introduction of the National Mail Route Network in June 2000 by the Obasanjo administration as a way to improve the quality of mail delivery in the country through partnership with the private sector has indeed become a worthwhile innovation that has brought a lot of accolades to Nipost. A fact Ibrahim Mori Baba, postmaster general of the federation acknowledged during the 9th edition of the launch of National Mail Route Network when he said “Today, we are celebrating the 9th anniversary of public partnership that has contributed immensely in bringing Nipost to both national and international limelight. It is pertinent to mention here  that our achievement , through the National Mail Route Network became a benchmark for African postal administrations and it is worthy to note that we have since extended the service to the West Coast of the continent. It is my hope and conviction that the partnership will continue to grow in leaps and bounds ‘’.
Nipost in the present dispensation has achieved commendable feats including breaking the record of being the first African country to occupy the chairmanship position  of then finance committee of the Universal Postal Union as well as in the Council of Administration.
Being an organisation not purely set up for profit making, Nipost knows the international politics and where the interest of the nation lies, as an ambassador of Nigeria in postal matters. So in conceding the hosting right of the Pan African Postal Union Congress to Egypt, Nipost had taken into consideration the Big Brother role or otherwise the Afrocentric role the founding fathers had played in Africa which led to the dismantle of apartheid in the Southern Africa enclave and even in the restoration of democratic process in Sierra-Leone and some other African countries that were taken under siege by the military junta. The extension of the same big brotherly role to Egypt, a fellow African country though from the northern block, is a continuation of the Africanness  foreign policy initiative of our living and  fallen heroes . Nipost’s insistence in hosting the PAPU Congress against Egypt request would have been a slight departure from Nigerian foreign policy model. Nigeria may have made some economic gains from such hosting, but Mori Baba had explained that for quite sometime, Egypt had not been part of the Pan African Postal Union  for sometime coupled with the fact that the North Africans had been showing limited interest in the activities of the pan African body. Since Egypt came back on board and showed interest to host the union, and considering the strategic influential position Egypt plays in the Arab region , allowing it to host the event would have rekindled the  fire that was burning down in the fellow Arab countries.
Again, Nigeria was said to have played down self when the opportunity came for the country to be part of the Finance Committee last year but again it con ceded it to France. One may ask, what was the bargain this time around when France, not even Britain, our colonial master was involved?  A layman may not understand the high wire network that pervades the international system, but for whatever it takes, we consider that the trade offs should be for the interest of the nation.
As  Nipost is receiving commendations from countries and organizations across the world, could Nipost  be likened to that of a prophet not being honoured in his fatherland because in some corners mere mention of  Nipost in Nigeria evokes a feeling of an organization at the precinct of collapse. Another school of thought may also come up with the fact that Nipost has excelled in politics and administration of the post rather than in postal operations as letters are still being missort, misrouted and sometimes missing in transit. Apart from the challenges said to be weighing the  postal sector down  such as bad roads, improper naming of streets and numbering and insecurity on our highways, Nipost management should do well to reorientate the workforce on the need to be commercially viable .