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The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has assured that it will begin the implementation of the digital postcode system or digital addressing system (DAS) before year end to boost Nigeria’s revenue generation and curb insecurity.
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The Director, Corporate Communications, NIPOST, Mr. Franklin Alao, gave the assurance this week in Abuja at a media interaction.
According to him, plans were already in top gear to achieve a digital postcode system in Nigeria before the end of this year.
He said the implementation will boost the country’s revenue generation and tackle insecurity.
NIPOST is implenting the digital addressing system (DAS) under the National Digital Addressing System (NDAS) developed by it on behalf of the government of Nigeria. The platform empowers NIPOST to provide an address for any location in Nigeria, and the postal sorting information to the address and direction to the address in few seconds.
The country’s Postmaster General and CEO of NIPOST, Dr Ismail Adewusi, had weeks back reiterated the postal agency’s commitment to have digitalised postcode system in order to improve the ease of doing business and enhance economic activities across the country.
Adewusi said the digitalization of the postcode system would facilitate better sorting, delivery of mail, and better response to emergencies by security agencies, to help checkmate activities of bandits, kidnappers and Internet scammers.
The Postmaster General added that the system will also engender effective healthcare delivery system, more efficient revenue and tax collections as well as utility bills distribution.
