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This Asiwaju thinks a decade ahead of his peers. Many may not understand the advantages of postcodes, especially if you've never lived abroad.

This can resolve insecurity problem easily.

A sound economy not the ongoing hypocrisy

Tabletuner:
Ingrates!
WHAT WILL EVER PLEASE YOU PEOPLE?

This will help with banks KYC process.

faceland:
Is it not the same as zip code?

Oyinbos website has already index our street and their code +15 years ago.

Hope one civil service has not collected billions to do what was already in the public domain?

No, it's different from zip code. A zip code identifies a zone. This is a digital postcode system to provide precise property identification.

Good but there is one more thing, the postal offices have to be revamped to function efficiently.

LordIsaac:
Mr Bosun, why should a building have 11 digit postcode? Post code (zip code) is something that should be easily memorized...I wonder who advises these folks!

This is not a zip code. Zip code identifies zones. This is a digital postcode system to identify precise property identification. It includes the zip code. People recall their phone numbers with ease. In one of my jobs I have to recall 19 digits code which changes quarterly.

For the postcode, it's very easy to recall.
The first 2 letters identify the state.

LA for Lagos
RI for Rivers

2 digits identify the LGA
Bonny is 07
Eleme is 09
Obio-Okpor is 15
Port Harcourt is 22

You note the last 7 characters.
For example, RI 22 A34 BE 02

BioData45:
Research about it to find out, everything isn't about hunger.

Lol.. brilliant response

chaliceGodson:
It is well ooo
What's the essence to the economy

The reasoning of an average Gala seller

Rutherinspace:
This is not a zip code. Zip code identifies zones. This is a digital postcode system to identify precise property identification. It includes the zip code. People recall their phone numbers with ease. In one of my jobs I have to recall 19 digits code which changes quarterly.

For the postcode, it's very easy to recall.
The first 2 letters identify the state.

LA for Lagos
RI for Rivers

2 digits identify the LGA
Bonny is 07
Eleme is 09
Obio-Okpor is 15
Port Harcourt is 22

You note the last 7 characters.
For example, RI 22 A34 BE 02

I see. Thanks for the clarification.

chaliceGodson:
It is well ooo
What's the essence to the economy

. It will help to identify lazy youths with no brain

JESUSson345:
Wetin we one use this one do na

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You fit use am die Yahoo Yahoo or drugs trafficking, since those are the only things you can think of

it's too much

LordIsaac:
Mr Bosun, why should a building have 11 digit postcode? Post code (zip code) is something that should be easily memorized...I wonder who advises these folks!

PMB dey

Parachoko:
The old system was so disorganised

I doubt you've ever made use of it sef

The6thAustralia:
This is a good initiative to give back to the society. The government can use this method to pay benefits to young Nigerians through this means..

Just like In other countries where the government give the citizens benefits.

You may be right but those countries you mentioned have registers of occupants of any abode, at any point in time.

Depending on countries, you have limited to register yourself, when packing in and packing out.

Some countries do this through homeowners or home managers, who will give occupants of buildings forms to complete and the forms are submitted to respective local government. It is the local government staff that will update the database on behalf of FG.

Some countries request that occupants of building have to go and register themselves at the local government in which their abode is.

For shortlets and hotels, it is the duty of the managers of such outlets to register and de-register foreign visitors with local government.

With all this administrative task, it is easy to track citizens’ movement in a given period and know where to send their benefits.

In Austria, for example, you are given 3 days to register your presence in the country. This is done through your ‘landlord’who will give you a form to fill (after filling his own part) and you will submit the form online to designated address of the local government (District) you are staying.

A certificate is generated in your name after submitting this form and it is this certificate that is asked for everywhere you go to transact any business or study or learn anything.

In Denmark, it is the local government (Kommune) that will register you. You have to be there physically, even if you are old.

A simple refresh button pressed on government’s computer can easily show them updated numbers of people in their register, with their house addresses and this helps in locating who to give benefits.

Assuming a household is entitled to just one pack of benefits, which can’t be applied for separately, this one address registered by the family is used.

Any attempt by another member of such family to claim another benefits will easily be spotted because a household is entitled to just one benefit.

If it is an individual benefit, each resident is reached via their UNIQUE registration code.

So, having post codes won’t solve benefit allocation problems in Nigeria. Our government still needs an updated database of occupants of every building at every point in time, so as to know where to send their benefit mails or packages, either physically or digitally.

Another app is needed for every citizen, inside which they will be notified of their benefits and how to claim it.

This app is also needed to communicate all government information so that citizens don’t fall victim of fffakkè notifications and information and fall into online scammers’ hands.

We know our level of literacy is low in Nigeria. This is one of challenges government will face. But this doesn’t stop government from starting at all. Th ose who can’t read or right have families or households that can do this in their behalf. This happens abroad too.

Local governments have so much roles to play in helping citizens enjoy being a citizen of a country, from job placement to training and grassroots infrastructure.
But our own local governments are just full of incompetence, rhetoric of pre-colonial era administration, very un-informed, unexposed, sets of staff and administrators who have been pocketed by governors and political leaders.

I can go on and on but let me stop here.

The post code will work only for a few people who order services online in big towns and cities, if NIPOST can maintain the momentum. Otherwise, it will amount to another academic exercise.

How many people have used the website to know their postcode successfully, let them come & tell us how they did it.

HitRun:
One important part of this news is missing or not obvious - WHERE CAN WE CHECK FOR THE POSTCODE? 😡

Only if you read the post

VanuatuWycombe:
The post code will work only for a few people who order services online in big towns and cities, if NIPOST can maintain the momentum. Otherwise, it will amount to another academic exercise.

It's not only for those who order services online. Most of those people don't have issues with addresses and deliveries. Nigeria have an addressing gap and this is the step in the right direction in fixing that issue.
There are many houses without addresses, when I lived in remote areas of Nigeria, you were referred to compounds of individuals, now this solves that problem.
This simplifies KYC. Ties accounts to digital identifies.
Provides reliable demographics and planning.
Assists security forces to to locate incident spots rapidly.
It's not only to be used by NIPOST. As I type, some developers are already working to integrate this on their system.
The new system affects everyone because with just the code, you can locate any spot in the country.

Olmautos:
Na Only Hunger Be their Problem
Dem no see Other Better thing wey the Baba don do

The things he did are so numerous and joyous that we need microscope to see it, if evidence dey e go show and it'll be easy to see, abi you want people to sing empty praises like you and your kind, be realistic, where the things the baba do?

emmy512:
This is good,
Should help emergency services whenever they start working; no need for too much talk.

just your code and the police should easily find you in times of emergency.

With this as well, you have to be very conscious of who gets your code cos it leads directly to your home.

Another great use will be for Bolt drivers; they should be able to easily locate my house without asking me where I am

Logistics and delivery riders too

orikoku:
This is nice, hope those living in villages and local area have access to this.

Of course. It will work mainly aligned to GPS and telephony technology. Any area covered by that will of course be good to go.

Areas lacking the tech capacity will get it in the end because geo-mapping tech is easy to upscale if appropriate hardware can be installed. It is all about money and the availability of it.

This is why I back the PBAT Government looking to transition Nigeria towards a cash liquid nation, having adequate and perhaps even surplus to spend on her developmental needs.

We should never go back to what previous Governments did and Atiku/Obi are now promising with pledges to return subsidies that will only deepens poverty, creates zero new wealth, mire us in a mono-economy dependent on crude alone and fosters stagnation.

Bimow:
This Asiwaju thinks a decade ahead of his peers. Many may not understand the advantages of postcodes, especially if you've never lived abroad.

This can resolve insecurity problem easily.

Correct comment. One thing with PBAT is that he assembles the best to deliver the best. Tidjani, Tunji-Ojo, Umahi, Wike, Keyamo, Cardoso etc. The list of outstanding achievers is too much.

Your comment particularly resonates with me as I have lived in the UK majority of my life and know how the postcode system, even before GPS and SAT-NAV tech enhanced it's capacity, had always been efficient and crucial to delivery of mail, goods and items to homes and business premises. PBAT is working.

The6thAustralia:
This is a good initiative to give back to the society. The government can use this method to pay benefits to young Nigerians through this means..

Just like In other countries where the government give the citizens benefits.

Since the Petroleum Industry Acts of 2021 has commercialized NNPCL and NNPCL starts declaring profits since petrol subsidy removal since 2023. A part of the profits made should be invested into the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Authority who in turn pays citizens with they profits they made.

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VanuatuWycombe:
You may be right but those countries you mentioned have registers of occupants of any abode, at any point in time.

Depending on countries, you have limited to register yourself, when packing in and packing out.

Some countries do this through homeowners or home managers, who will give occupants of buildings forms to complete and the forms are submitted to respective local government. It is the local government staff that will update the database on behalf of FG.

Some countries request that occupants of building have to go and register themselves at the local government in which their abode is.

For shortlets and hotels, it is the duty of the managers of such outlets to register and de-register foreign visitors with local government.

With all this administrative task, it is easy to track citizens’ movement in a given period and know where to send their benefits.

In Austria, for example, you are given 3 days to register your presence in the country. This is done through your ‘landlord’who will give you a form to fill (after filling his own part) and you will submit the form online to designated address of the local government (District) you are staying.

A certificate is generated in your name after submitting this form and it is this certificate that is asked for everywhere you go to transact any business or study or learn anything.

In Denmark, it is the local government (Kommune) that will register you. You have to be there physically, even if you are old.

A simple refresh button pressed on government’s computer can easily show them updated numbers of people in their register, with their house addresses and this helps in locating who to give benefits.

Assuming a household is entitled to just one pack of benefits, which can’t be applied for separately, this one address registered by the family is used.

Any attempt by another member of such family to claim another benefits will easily be spotted because a household is entitled to just one benefit.

If it is an individual benefit, each resident is reached via their UNIQUE registration code.

So, having post codes won’t solve benefit allocation problems in Nigeria. Our government still needs an updated database of occupants of every building at every point in time, so as to know where to send their benefit mails or packages, either physically or digitally.

Another app is needed for every citizen, inside which they will be notified of their benefits and how to claim it.

This app is also needed to communicate all government information so that citizens don’t fall victim of fffakkè notifications and information and fall into online scammers’ hands.

We know our level of literacy is low in Nigeria. This is one of challenges government will face. But this doesn’t stop government from starting at all. Th ose who can’t read or right have families or households that can do this in their behalf. This happens abroad too.

Local governments have so much roles to play in helping citizens enjoy being a citizen of a country, from job placement to training and grassroots infrastructure.
But our own local governments are just full of incompetence, rhetoric of pre-colonial era administration, very un-informed, unexposed, sets of staff and administrators who have been pocketed by governors and political leaders.

I can go on and on but let me stop here.

The post code will work only for a few people who order services online in big towns and cities, if NIPOST can maintain the momentum. Otherwise, it will amount to another academic exercise.

I thought about it too, if it can happen in other countries, we can do it too. It does not necessarily have to be instantly.

I actually have a well thought out plan of what I am saying incombination of the BVN and this post code will not only cover addressing gap in Nigeria but also cover probable loops when trying to allocate funds to qualified citizens most especially the senior citizens

We don hear o. Make dem sha help us look into that NIPOST logo. It needs a new lifeline.