The whole Federal Capital Territory runs on one dispatch block, 900. No other state or territory in Nigeria manages that. Garki main head office is 900001, the codes stop at 905001, and everything between them is separated by nothing more than the last three digits. Abuja is the one place in Nigeria where addressing was…
600001 anchors postal region 6, so every code in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Taraba begins with a 6. Borno State is also the largest state in Nigeria by land area, which makes distance, rather than density, the thing that shapes delivery here. Codes run to 612104. 600001 anchors postal region 6, which covers Borno, Yobe,…
Eleven of Oyo State’s local government areas are all called Ibadan. That single fact explains why published code tables for this state contradict each other more than any other, and why 200001, the Ibadan head office, is the only number here worth trusting on a form. State codes begin 20 and end at 212104. Oyo…
Kwara State is filed in postal region 2 with Oyo, Osun and Kogi, which puts it postally in the south west even though Ilorin is an emirate city. Its codes open 24, run to 252104, and 240001 is the head office code to use on a form. Kwara sits in postal region 2 with Oyo,…
Cross River State stretches from the Calabar estuary to the Obudu plateau on the Cameroon border, far enough that its two halves function as separate postal territories joined by a road. Published codes open 54 and run to 553108, with the Calabar head office code following the national pattern at 540001. Cross River is in…
Ile Ife sits across four local government areas. Ilesa sits across two. That is the whole problem with Osun State’s published code tables in one sentence, and why 220001, the Osogbo head office, is the number to rely on. State codes open 22 and end at 234103. Osun sits in postal region 2 with Oyo,…
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…
The honest answer is that it depends on one thing: where your income comes from. If it comes from a Lagos employer, live in Lagos. If it is remote or dollar denominated, almost anywhere else in Nigeria gives you a better life for the same money. Everything below assumes that filter has already been applied….
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…