HowToNaija: How to do stuff in Nigeria

Are you looking for how to find your postcode in Nigeria? Then this article is for you. In the not too distant past, I was in your shoes but not anymore. Read carefully and follow the steps outlined here. To get your postcode, get yourself an internet connected device then do the following: ·          Go to this webpage: www.nigeriapostcodes.com/views on getting there you will have two options facing you, Urban Post Code search and Rural Post code search. The former is for searching areas in cities and townships while the latter is for searching communities and villages. ·          For the urban post code search, click on the tab for it and then click on the drop down menu from here you can select the state the area is located. From the next menu select the town. Under the town you will have to select the area and finally from the area, you can then select the street name. After selecting the...

If you take a little look around forums on the internet, you will see most persons asking questions on how to secure a mortgage loan in Nigeria . The general consensus is that it is very hard to secure this kind of loan facilities in our country. However, I must point out that this is a very wrong notion. Securing mortgage loans in Nigeria is easy depending on how you are going about it. It only becomes hard when you don’t know the requirements and the places to go to in order to make your request. In Nigeria, the body in charge of Mortgage Loans is known as the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN). This bank gives out the loans through various lenders and most notably banks. So to get the loans, one has to go to these banks and lenders. The funding for the loans is usually done through the National Housing Trust Fund. So for you to get a mortgage loan, you will have to meet the lenders and banks. Fortunately, most banks operating in the country today have a mortgage scheme g...

The NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) is a program set up by the federal government of Nigeria in 1973 geared towards fostering unity amongst Nigerians. It’s a program that can only be signed up for by Nigerian graduates of institutions of higher learning living both in Nigeria and abroad. In this article we will be looking at how to sign up for NYSC as a foreign based Nigerian. Entry into the NYSC programs is run 3 times a year. Each window is denoted by either Batch A, B or C. Under normal circumstances, the batch A program is usually run in February while the batch B and C is run in June and October respectively. As a foreign student, you need to keep an eye on the NYSC website at www. nysc .gov.ng to know when activities in preparation of an entry window have started. As soon as the activities start, you can then come back to the country to sign up or do your registration. Do not bother trying to send a relative to help you out with the process as they no longer allow reg...