NIPOST, NPC move for seamless rollout of digitised postcode

NIGERIAN Postal Service ( NIPOST) is working with the National Population Commission ( NPC) for seamless rollout of a digitised postcode for the country.

Consequently, the two agencies have begun enhancing the initiative, leveraging technology and deploying necessary systems via systematic framework of alpha- numeric characters from state, local government areas, postcode districts, areas and units.

The NPC made it emphatic that a postcode system was a prerequisite for the 2023 census.

At the Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU) signing, yesterday, in Abuja, Post Master General of the Federation, Dr. Ismail Adebayo Adewusi, pointed out that the postcode “is a critical infrastructure for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including poverty reduction, disease control and provision of basic services such as water and electricity.”