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Updates, field reports, and stories from the field as the national digital postcode rolls out across Nigeria.
You order a new phone online. At checkout, you type your street address, add your estate name, mention the nearest junction, then write "black gate beside the p
A birth certificate application sits in a queue for three weeks because the registration center listed on the file no longer matches any address a courier can f
You have searched for your address, but no digital postcode appears.
You are opening a new bank account, applying for a loan, or registering a business, and the form asks for proof of your residential address. You reach for a uti
A customer wants to visit your shop, so they ask for directions. Instead of giving them a string of numbers and letters, you simply tell them your business name
A new account sign-up asks for an address, then stalls at a field marked Postcode. The applicant enters the street name, adds a landmark, mentions the nearest b
A dispatch rider circles the same street in Ojota for the third time, phone pressed to his ear. "Beside the blue gate," the customer says. "Opposite the transfo
