About Nigeria Postcodes

Nigeria Postcodes is an independent guide. It is not affiliated with NIPOST or the Federal Government. NIPOST's official postcode lookup is postcode.gov.ng.

What the site does

Since 2017 the site has published Nigeria's 6-digit postal codes by state, LGA, area and street. It now lists 2,942 codes across 581 LGAs, and explains NIPOST's new 11-character postcode, which launched on 1 October 2026.

How we work

• Every page shows a date. Data pages show when their listing was last updated. Older listings keep their original date and are labelled, rather than being passed off as new.
• Every factual claim has a source. Explainers list the official pages and reports they rely on, with the date we opened them.
• We don't guess. Where a source doesn't say something, we leave it out or say it's unconfirmed.
• We don't store new postcodes. NIPOST's terms don't allow copying its building codes, so we link to NIPOST's lookup instead. The only new codes shown here are NIPOST's own published examples.

Who writes it

Nigeria Postcodes is edited by Kehinde Adebayo, who writes and checks the explainers and guides and reviews every reported correction. Reader questions answered in the comments over the years feed the FAQs, with names removed.

Found a mistake?

Use the "Report a wrong code" form at the end of any data page, or the contact page. We check every report against a source before changing a code.

More detail: our data sources and methods.