It is shameful enough living with the fact that the “giant of Africa” the largest black nation in the world does not have a postal code, a system of letters and numbers used to aid sorting of mail traffic is one of the highest in the world. As such, it is unacceptable for the Nigeria Postal Service to continue to hang over our heads, this shame as we move into the new millennium – a period of a thousand years widely believed to be a period of technological advancement and economic growth. To corroborate my suspicion, I went to the Nigeria Postal Service to find out, and to my astonishment it was confirmed that there was no postcode, in fact, so many of the staffers of the Nigerian Postal Service know little or nothing about postal codes. Whenever government fails to meet up its obligations, it is we the ordinary citizens at the lower rung of the ladder who always pay the price. Only a couple of days ago, Obi Ojimiwe, a political Science graduate of University of Lagos, walked into a bu...
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