{"id":77802,"date":"2025-10-30T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77802"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:59:00","slug":"fg-unveils-automated-customs-payment-system-for-parcel-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/30\/fg-unveils-automated-customs-payment-system-for-parcel-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Unveils Automated Customs Payment System for Parcel Clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has launched the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), Automated Payment Solution for inbound international parcels, a digital platform to simplify customs payments, boost transparency, and end long queues at post offices.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled in Abuja, the platform is part of NIPOST\u2019s digital transformation under the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy. It integrates Paystack for payments, Sendbox for tracking, and Messenger for last-mile delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Representing the Minister, Dr. Bosun Tijani, Permanent Secretary Rafiu Adeladan said the initiative exemplifies modern governance driven by innovation and private-sector collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Postmaster General Tola Odeyemi said the system enables real-time customs assessments, secure online payments, and direct parcel tracking, ensuring faster service and instant government revenue remittance.<\/p>\n<p>She added that future phases will extend the system to exports through the upcoming TradePost Project.<\/p>\n<p>The new platform, part of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Digital Economy Agenda, aims to eliminate delays and hidden charges that have long plagued Nigeria\u2019s parcel clearance process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Federal Government has launched the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), Automated Payment Solution for inbound international parcels, a digital platform to simplify customs payments, boost transparency, and end long queues at post offices. Unveiled in Abuja, the platform is part of NIPOST\u2019s digital transformation under the Ministry of Communications, Innovation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77804,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77802\/revisions\/77804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}