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Nigeria Postcode MCP server

Lets your AI check, look up, and find Nigerian NIPOST digital postcodes for buildings and addresses.

This is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to Nigeria's new NIPOST digital postcode system, called NDAPS. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI about Nigerian postcodes and it will do the checking and looking up for you. It is handy if you deal with Nigerian addresses at work, for deliveries, forms, or customer records.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, your AI can only chat. It cannot look anything up in the real world. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill, in this case a connection to Nigeria's postcode service. So when you ask about a Nigerian postcode, your AI passes the question to this helper, the helper talks to the postcode service, and you get the answer back in the chat.

What this MCP server does

You type a question about a Nigerian postcode, like whether a code is valid or what building it belongs to. Your AI sends that question to this helper. The helper either checks the code by itself, without any internet, or asks the NIPOST postcode service for the details. Then it sends the answer back to your AI, which explains it to you in plain words. If something is wrong, like a missing key or a typo, the helper returns a message your AI can act on, such as asking you to confirm a suggested fix.

What you can do with it

Check whether a Nigerian postcode is correctly formed, even without internet
Look up which building a postcode belongs to
Get the address and building details behind a postcode
Autocomplete a partly typed postcode as you go
Find the postcode of the nearest building to a map location
Turn a described address, like a landmark, into a postcode

Try asking your AI

“Is this Nigerian postcode valid: 100001?”
“What building is this postcode for?”
“Help me finish this postcode, it starts with 1000”
“What is the postcode for the building at these coordinates?”
“Find the postcode for the address behind Fabian Hotel, off NTA Road”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, like whether a code is valid, a suggested fix for a typo, the building or address behind a code, or a list of possible completions. For location and address questions, it returns the closest postcode it can find, sometimes with a note about how confident it is. If it cannot find anything, it tells you and may ask a follow-up question.

Before you start

What you need

The uv tool installed on your computer
A NIPOST API key from the NIPOST developer dashboard (a kind of password for apps; the site gives you one for free)
An MCP client like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code

Good to know

The details tool spends credits, and level 2 and up return house addresses, which are personal data under Nigerian law, so use it carefully.

Install it with your AI

Add Nigeria Postcode MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed

You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

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Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check Nigeria Postcode MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,609 MCP servers here for you.