The Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST)?is to sensitise its?staff?on the use of?e-transact to enhance the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN's) new policy on cash-based transactions.
The e-transact is a `one-time dynamic pin' generated through a?cardholders mobile phone or web account which will give authorisation before?payment?can be made.
The Public Relations Officer of? NIPOST,?Mr Taiye Olaniyi, told the News agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday?that the agency had?successfully sensitised its staff in ?Lagos, Oyo, Ibadan, Port-Harcourt, Akwa-Ibom, and Delta .
He also said that NIPOST had also concluded plans to train its staff in?Kano and Kaduna.
Olaniyi?said that the e-transact was still at the pilot stage.
According to him, the product will?provide a range of world class e-payment solutions that offers card holders secure convenient and discount service.
“The e-transact is an electronic transfer of cash from one person to the other using the mobile phone regardless of the banks the people are operating.
“The purpose of the e-transact is to make the post office a convergent zone for transaction of all sorts that has not been known to the post offices.
“The e-transact, which is also regarded as the e-wallet came into existence through a public private partnership which NIPOST had with other relevant organisations which is geared to give cardholders access to e-payment anywhere all over the country.''
Olaniyi? told NAN that NIPOST had collaborated with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC)?to help in the registration of people.
“Recently while commissioning the Adi-Etulo Post Office in Makurdi, we introduced some sophisticated equipment which allows for the registration of the National Identity Card.
“The registration will?be done through the capturing of one’s image and a finger print which will?be sent to the NIMC headquarters for the production of the cards and thereafter the card will be dispatched by the post office.''
Olaniyi said that it was possible to partner with NIMC because the post office was a community based institution with wide expanse in?Nigeria, providing the most reliable, accessible cheapest and most confidential means of communication
According to him, it serves the urban and rural communities and provides both conventional products and services mixing its social obligations with the demands of modern time to satisfying customers need.(NAN)