NGBisi Adegbuyi, the former Postmaster-General of the Federation, has urged the Nigerian Federal Government to leverage the recent collaboration between the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) to develop a comprehensive national address system. This system would link every individual's National Identification Number (NIN) to a verified physical location. Adegbuyi argues that while Nigeria has made progress in digital identity management through the NIN, the system's utility is limited without reliable ways to determine the locations of individuals, businesses, and public assets. He proposes expanding the existing Memorandum of Understanding between NIMC and NIPOST beyond just creating a national postcode framework to include a broader digital addressing infrastructure that integrates identity, location, and public service delivery. Adegbuyi highlights that existing NIN enrollment data provides a foundation for this system and suggests that these records could be standardized, geocoded, and verified to create a trusted national location database.
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