The Federal Government has relaunched Nigeria’s long-delayed digital postcode project, more than two decades after it was first conceived, and is now integrating it with the National Identification Number (NIN). The initiative was formalised on Friday in Abuja, through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST). The agreement, signed by NIMC Director-General, Abisoye Coker-Odusote and NIPOST Postmaster-General, Tola Odeyemi, brings NIPOST into Nigeria’s digital identity ecosystem. Coker-Odusote explained that postcode retrieval has already been integrated into the NIN platform,…
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