Telephone numbers in Nigeria use a combination of area codes and personal numbers. Area codes are one digit (

Lagos Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the List of cities in Africa by population, second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national ca ...

Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its me ...

and

Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

) or two digits. Local phone numbers contain between five and seven digits. The length of a phone number can vary within an area code. Mobile phone numbers start with 070, 080 or 081, 090 or 091 and are followed by eight digits.

Calling formats

These examples use calls to Lagos as example: * xxx xxxx – Calls within an area code * 01 xxx xxxx – Calls from outside Lagos * +234 1 xxx xxxx – Calls from outside

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* 0xxx xxx xxxx – Calls to a mobile number (see below) * 042 xxx xxxx – Land line calls to Enugu * 052****** – Land line calls to Edo

Mobile phone network prefixes

The following prefixes are assigned to mobile phone network operators.

implemented

mobile number portability Mobile number portability (MNP) enables mobile telephone A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that ...

in 2013. Therefore, prefixes no longer reliably indicate which network a phone number is on.

Area codes

References

External links

ITU allocations list
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nigerian telephone numbers Telecommunications in Nigeria

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Calling formats

Mobile phone network prefixes

Area codes

See also

References

External links