Yola is the old emirate town. Jimeta, minutes away, is where the government and the markets sit. Locals use the names interchangeably; the post offices do not. 640001 is the Yola head office code, state codes open 64, and the range ends at 652105. Adamawa is in postal region 6 with Borno, Yobe and Taraba….
Eleven local government areas, the fewest of any northern state, arranged around a capital that sits almost exactly in the middle. That geometry is why Gombe State moves post more easily than its larger neighbours. Published codes open 76, run to 771104, and the head office code follows the national pattern at 760001. Gombe completes…
Umuahia governs Abia State. Aba makes things, sells them and generates most of the state’s post. The two towns sit in different code blocks, and it is 440001, the Umuahia head office, that belongs on a form. State codes open 44 and reach 453120. Abia is another region 4 state where the capital and the…
Ondo State runs from the Atlantic to the northern hills and carries four separate telephone area codes, matched by only one other state. Its postal blocks divide the same way. Published codes open 34 and reach 352120, with the Akure head office code following the national pattern at 340001. Ondo is in postal region 3…
A Nigerian zip code is six digits, it is issued by NIPOST, and it belongs to a post office delivery district rather than to a town, an estate or a local government area. Ikeja head office in Lagos is 100001. Garki main head office in Abuja is 900001. Port Harcourt is 500001, Enugu is 400001,…
Sokoto has been a seat of government since the early nineteenth century, and the old city is still navigated by ward rather than by street number. Its postal codes are straightforward by comparison: they open 84, run to 853102, and 840001 is the head office. Sokoto sits in postal region 8 with Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi…
500001 does double duty. It is Port Harcourt head office, and it is the anchor for the whole of postal region 5, which is why every code in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Bayelsa opens with a 5. Rivers State codes run from there to 512102. Rivers anchors postal region 5, the South South…
The old Northern Region was governed from Kaduna, and the postal plan still shows it. 800001 anchors region 8, which is why Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara codes all begin with 8. Kaduna State’s own codes run from there to 812103, all opening 80. 800001 anchors postal region 8, which covers Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi…