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The Federal Government has revived Nigeria’s long-stalled digital postcode project more than two decades after it was first conceived, and has begun integrating it with the National Identification Number NIN to strengthen address verification and improve service delivery across the country.

The move followed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Identity Management Commission and the Nigerian Postal Service in Abuja on Friday. The agreement was signed by NIMC Director-General Abisoye Coker-Odusote and NIPOST Postmaster General Tola Odeyemi, formally bringing NIPOST into NIMC’s digital identity ecosystem.

Coker-Odusote said the two agencies had already begun work to connect postcode retrieval to the NIN platform, so that Nigerians could access both services from one point.

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“Our teams have collaborated to integrate postcode retrieval into the NIN platform, so that Nigerians will soon be able to confirm their address and retrieve their postcode through one trusted platform. This is designed to make access faster and more convenient for all Nigerians,” she said.

She described the combination of identity and location data as foundational to Nigeria’s digital economy, saying the NIN establishes who a person is, while the postcode establishes where they can reliably be reached.

“Together, these two national assets create a powerful foundation for inclusive governance and digital transformation,” she said.

Coker-Odusote also disclosed that NIPOST had been licensed as a front-end enrolment partner for NIMC, meaning Nigerians can now enrol for the NIN at post offices nationwide.

Odeyemi said the postcode system would assign a unique, GIS-enabled, machine-readable location identifier to every standing structure in Nigeria, effectively leapfrogging traditional addressing methods to improve logistics, emergency response, and access to public services.

“Every modern economy depends on two critical capabilities: knowing who people are and knowing where they are. Identity gives people access; the postcode that we’re building gives service direction,” she said.

She confirmed that the project, first conceived in 2006, had received full federal funding for the first time under the current administration.

“The Nigerian Postal Service has been trying this project, I think, since 2006. This is the first time that this project has been fully funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria,” she said.

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