7411, Nigeria’s Emergency Number Rings Excitement

7411 bureau of information, Nigeria’s first and only 24-hour national bureau of directory and information services is being welcomed with fanfare by Nigerians, with some saying that the project was long overdue.

A typical national emergency call number with links to Federal Road Safety Corps, police and fire service, the service also has businesses listings, people finders, driving directions, tax advices, address finders, health histories, record back-up, weather forecasts, reverse phone tracker, and jobs finder.

To have easy access into information and life saving tips just dial 7411 on any phone in Nigeria and +2347411 from outside Nigeria.

411ng.com, the technical company in charge of the project said that when fully operational, the national directory number can comfortably handle 670,000 callers at a time.

And the buzz of the project is loud and clear in many online communities like nairaland.com where it has been variously hailed as the best thing yet from Nigeria.

Some of the posts said  “This is a welcomed development. We need to brace up to the security challenges we are currently facing”

Another said: Just read this Exciting info smwhere b4 logging on. I mean one does not need to overstate how extremely, extremely Important this move is…. A National Emergency No in Nigeria? Finally. Very Big Kudos to those pushing this

There was also: finally..it has been achieved..this development wil help alot but nigerians should be careful..dont call unnecesarily or just to prank them…because i can hear sum people askin them questions like i dnt knw how to lite the stove..how do i do it..? huh
Well, dis is a welcome development. But considering d state of our network operators in nigeria, their poor quality service coupled wit their high tariff, dat aside can we count on d personnels to discharge their their duty effectively nd efficiently considering d state of teknological development in d country, even if everytin shld go as planned can we count on d so called FRSC, intelligent bodies, and security officials to carry out their duty as expected, cos even if u are being rob in d middle of d nite nd a police station is close to where u are dont expect dem 2 show up not until afta some few minutes those badt guys must av left.My major fear is dat can it stand d test of time, without needin to set up a comiti some