This tech firm built the geospatial infrastructure behind Nigeria’s door-level address system.
Behind it is Milsat’s push to build location-data infrastructure—but keeping that information accurate, accessible and useful will be the bigger test.
For years, finding an address across much of Nigeria has depended far less on a number than on a description.
A visitor might be directed to a street, told to look for a distinctive building, instructed to turn at a familiar shop, or advised to keep walking until reaching a landmark tree.
Delivery riders often know a neighbourhood intimately yet still struggle to identify the correct front gate. Across the country, the gap between arriving in a community and reaching a specific doorway remains considerable. Nigeria’s new digital postcode system is designed to narrow that gap. Launched on October 1, 2026 , it moves beyond the traditional postcode, which identifies a broad area, to assign codes at the level of individual buildings or delivery units.
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