The Nigerian Postal Service has reaffirmed its commitment to implementing a National Digital Postcode System to assign a unique digital address to every addressable building across the country.
Speaking at the unveiling of the Post Code Delineation Model Validation 2026 in Abuja on Monday night, the Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of NIPOST, Tola Odeyemi, said the initiative would establish a machine-readable standard location-address framework for buildings nationwide.
“Postcode is basically a framework used to have a machine-readable standard location address for every addressable building in Nigeria,” Odeyemi said.
She explained that the project would place Nigeria among the first countries in Africa to develop a postcode system down to the unit level, ensuring that each standing building is assigned a unique code.
According to her, the digital postcode system is expected to enhance service delivery, logistics operations, emergency response, and national planning by improving the identification of locations
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