Skip to content

Postal code 972242

Listed · original date keptSources

Advertisement
General Hospital, Oturkpo, Benue State 972242 Used by 1 area and 8 listed streets and places

972242 is a 6-digit NIPOST postal code. Our listings use it for General Hospital, Oturkpo in Benue.

Places using 972242

Areas and streets listed with postal code 972242.
General HospitalArea · Oturkpo, BenueAreaOturkpo, Benue
General HospitalStreet · General HospitalStreetGeneral Hospital
Harison Adoka RdStreet · General HospitalStreetGeneral Hospital
Hospital RdStreet · General HospitalStreetGeneral Hospital
Ikwe Bongos AveStreet · General HospitalStreetGeneral Hospital
Makurdi RdStreet · General HospitalStreetGeneral Hospital
Ogbagaya RdStreet · General HospitalStreetGeneral Hospital
Railway Rest HouseStreet · General HospitalStreetGeneral Hospital
Teachers Training CollegeStreet · General HospitalStreetGeneral Hospital
Advertisement

Nearby codes

New since 1 Oct 2026

New postcode in General Hospital, Oturkpo

Buildings now also get their own 11-character digital postcode from NIPOST. Most forms still ask for the 6-digit code on this page. There is no conversion between the two: your building's new code comes only from NIPOST's lookup.

Published example format
  1. LAState
  2. 01LGA
  3. A03District
  4. FKArea
  5. 01Building
One lookup through NIPOST's service. The result is shown to you only and not stored or logged.
Find my building's code How the new code works

How to get a building's new code

972242 covers an area. Since 1 October 2026 each building can also have an 11-character NIPOST postcode. You can't work it out from 972242; look the building up on postcode.gov.ng. Our guide How to find your new postcode walks through it.

Sources

  • 6-digit codes: the legacy NIPOST postcode listings published on this site since 2017, from the listing“/general-hospital-streets-zip-codes-2/” (published 29 Jul 2017, last updated 29 Jul 2017). These codes have not been re-checked against NIPOST since those dates. How we built this data.
  • State and LGA names: OCHA/HDX COD-AB Nigeria (OSGOF, eHealth Africa, UNCS), CC BY-IGO.
  • Approximate locations for distances: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Distances are between area centres, not addresses.
  • New postcode format and example: NIPOST, “What is the new alpha-numeric postcode” (opened 1 Oct 2026).
Ask a question or report a wrong code

Ask a question

About: postal code 972242 (972242)

10 to 500 characters.
Leave it blank to show “A reader”. First name only.
Only to tell you when it's answered. Never shown, and deleted after that email.

Questions are answered publicly on this page with your first name (if you give one). Our AI provider, Anthropic, processes the question text to draft the answer. Please don't include phone numbers, addresses or account details. See our privacy notice.

Report a wrong code

About: postal code 972242 (972242)

What's wrong?
Never published or shared.

We check every report against a source before changing a code. See our privacy notice.