A delivery rider may know your street and still need to call to find your gate. Taslim Salaudeen helped build the technology behind Nigeria’s digital postcode system, which is designed to make it easier to find individual buildings.
Salaudeen is the co-founder and chief executive of Milsat Technologies. The company started in 2017 to tackle a problem he had seen in mapping work. Organisations often recorded information about roads and buildings on paper, making it hard to update or share. Milsat built tools to collect and store that information digitally.
The company’s mapping work with the National Population Commission brought it to the attention of the Nigerian Postal Service. Milsat provided technology and training for a trial in Abuja. It later worked with MID Network on the national project, which launched on October 1, 2026.
A traditional postcode covers an area. The new system is designed to give each building its own code, so a rider can tell which gate to stop at, even on a street with no house numbers.
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