₦airaland Forum

casualobserver:
This is why we don’t develop as a nation. Every state creating there own emergency numbers.

Emergency numbers should be the same all over the country. The mobile operator will then route your call to the right service based on the location of your base station. If you are in sapele it knows you are in Edo state and directs your call to Edo state emergency service. If you are in ilesha, you dial the same number and it will route your call to the Oyo state emergency service if they have one.

INTEGRITYA1:
Nice idea. People should learn to use those numbers accordingly and when need arises. Not that you just feel like calling and you begin to call emergency numbers anyhow.

Some people do flash such numbers self.

stacyadams:
Useless . Response time 5 hours later


Pack any youngblood in the vicinity and charge em for jaywalking

DatNaijaGuy:
112 is the national emergency number.

casualobserver:
I didn’t know that. It used to be 999 when I was young.

naptu2:
We did and we do.

We had 199 back when P&T and Nitel were still operating. Chaos ensued when private telecoms operators arrived and Nitel went comatose. Every telecoms company had its own number and many states also had their own numbers. Lagos State had 112 and 767 as emergency numbers. Finally the NCC has developed a project to have a single 3 digit emergency number for the whole of Nigeria and the number is 112.

You can see 112 listed as one of the numbers in my second post (112 is the general emergency number, but some agencies still have their own specific numbers).

naptu2:
Telephone service was provided by P&T (Posts And Telecoms) which became Nitel in 1985. There were area codes - Ikoyi was 68, Victoria Island was 61, Lagos Island was 62, Festac was 88, Ikeja was 97, etc.

You had to wait for a dialling tone before you could make a call. We were lucky, the government paid our phone bill.

There were huge telephone books (1978, 1979, 1982 and 1983) and you could find people's phone numbers with the telephone books.

Some short codes were 199 (emergency), 198 (speaking clock), but I can't remember what the ring back short code was.

You had to book international calls with the operator.

naptu2:
We used to have a single national three digit emergency number back when Nitel was the only service provider (the number was 199).

The system became disorganised when private operators were given licenses and Nitel eventually collapsed. Each service provider and state had its own emergency number. The NCC is trying to reintroduce a single national three digit emergency number.

naptu2:
199