By Miriam Humbe
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON have resolved to collaborate in the initiative of providing Nigerians with a new Proof of Address, PoA, which is a database of verifiable addresses of Nigerians for improved national security and economic planning.
Dele Oyewale, the EFCC’s Head, Media & Publicity disclosed this in a statement signed on Thursday.
The resolution was reached on Wednesday, February 19, 2026 when members of ALGON, led by the Lead Technical Partner, Prince Segun Obayendo and the Deputy Director Political, Office of The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF, Abdulmajeed Abubakar came on a courtesy visit at EFCC’s headquarters, in Jabi, Abuja.
Secretary to the Commission, Muhammed Hammajoda, who received the delegation on behalf of EFCC’s Executive Chairman, gave the assurance of the anti-graft agency’s collaboration with ALGON in driving the new PoA initiative.
“We will key into it and we will drive the process and whatever collaboration you need from now on, we are going to work with you,” he said.
Highlighting the importance of the initiative to EFCC, Hammajoda noted that the POA will help the Commission in identifying owners of properties suspected to be proceeds of crime.
“Proof of Address is always an issue. We have a property and we want to prove its ownership, so address plays a vital role to proof of ownership, whether the individual is there as a tenant or as the owner of the house or even the particular third party, we want when we go to court it will not be contested,” he said.
Abubakar disclosed that the OSGF was in collaboration with ALGON in the PoA scheme, noting that the PoA system is a new initiative, being implemented by the federal government across all the 774 local government areas.
According to him: “It aims at providing every resident with a verifiable and secure address that can be used for good governance, service delivery, boost national security, economic planning and enforce a database of verifiable addresses of Nigerians towards enabling security agencies to track and mitigate criminal activities within the country.”
He noted that ALGON was the ideal partner to drive the initiative in order to ensure that the PoA system is implemented in all the Nigerian local government areas.
“We are all aware that ALGON represents all the 774 local government areas, making it the ideal partner to ensure the Proof of Address system is implemented at the community level. Secondly, we have policy coordination.
“The OSGF oversees the activity and roll out of the PoA system across all the 774 local governments and stakeholders’ engagements in the sense of meeting and other things. The OSGF ensures that MDAs adopt the PoA as they are required for official addresses,” he said.
On his part, Obayendo disclosed that the concept of PoA was about establishing a citizen’s accurate location, and demography, adding that part of what is needed is a National Identification Number, NIN, to provide the PoA of an individual.
