Kebbi State is one of two states whose published code range collides with a neighbour’s, an inheritance from the Sokoto split that has never been untangled online. Its own codes open 86, run to 872211, and 860001 is the Birnin Kebbi head office code. Kebbi is in postal region 8 with Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto and…
Thirty one local government areas packed into a compact state with an oil belt on its coast. Akwa Ibom State codes open 52, run to 534107, and 520001 is the Uyo head office code, though much of Uyo is newer than the districts that serve it. Akwa Ibom sits in postal region 5 with Rivers,…
Thirty four local government areas, second only to Kano, strung along the Niger Republic border and down into the farming belt. Katsina State codes open 82, run to 833102, and 820001 is the Katsina head office code for forms. Katsina is in postal region 8 with Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara. It has 34 local…
Hundreds of thousands of people in Ogun State write Lagos on their address. The postal system disagrees. State codes begin 11, run to 122107, and 110001 is the Abeokuta head office code that belongs on those forms instead. Ogun shares postal region 1 with Lagos and nothing else, which puts its codes among the lowest…
300001 anchors postal region 3, covering Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti, because Benin City was the centre of the old Mid West. Edo State codes open with 30 and run to 313111, across a city laid out in rings around the Oba’s palace. 300001 anchors postal region 3, covering Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti. Benin…
Zamfara State’s codes begin 88. That single fact is worth more than any table you will find online, because published Zamfara State listings routinely hand out Kebbi’s 86 codes instead. The Gusau head office code follows the national pattern at 880001, and state codes run to 883105. Zamfara completes postal region 8 with Kaduna, Katsina,…
The capital of Anambra State is Awka. The centre of gravity is Onitsha, whose market is among the largest in West Africa and whose traders address themselves by shop and market line rather than by street. State codes open 42 and run to 435115, with the Awka head office code following the national pattern at…
Niger State is the largest state in Nigeria by land area and it borders the Federal Capital Territory, which together produce the most common addressing error in the country. State codes open 92, run to 923107, and the Minna head office code follows the national pattern at 920001. Niger is in postal region 9 with…
Forty four local government areas, more than any other state in Nigeria, and nine dispatch blocks to serve them. Kano State postal codes begin 70, run to 713105, and the one to use on a form is 700001, the Kano head office. Kano anchors postal region 7, which it shares with Jigawa, Bauchi and Gombe,…
Ebonyi State did not exist in 1995. It was carved out of Enugu and Abia in 1996 and inherited its postal codes from blocks drawn for those states, which is why old documents sometimes file its towns under the wrong one. Codes open 48, run to 491110, and the Abakaliki head office code follows the…