{
  "id": 11426038,
  "title": "Nigeria rolls out digital postcodes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/nigeria-rolls-out-digital-postcodes",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-02T10:55:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261002-nigeria-rolls-out-digital-postcodes"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nigeria’s Postal Service has launched a National Digital Alphanumeric Postcode System. The system is designed to help Nigerians find the postcodes of locations across the country. Before now, house identification in Nigeria was based on an unreliable house numbering system. Locating places was difficult, time consuming and sometimes even expensive. But there may challenges using the new system in…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}