Abuja (FCT) Plate Number Codes
All 9 Abuja plate number codes, with the local government area behind each one. Find yours in the table below, or jump straight to the code you came for.
The Federal Capital Territory is not a state, and it is divided into area councils rather than into local government areas — but its plates work exactly the same way, with one three-letter code per council.
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All Abuja Plate Number Codes
Every row is a link target: ABC, for example, lives at the end of this page URL as an anchor, so you can send someone straight to it.
| Code | Local Government Area | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|
| ABC | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | Abuja |
| ABJ | Abaji Area Council | Abaji |
| BWR | Bwari | Bwari |
| GWA | Gwagwalada | Gwagwalada |
| KUJ | Kuje Area Council | Kuje |
| KWL | Kwali | Kwali |
| RBC | Rubochi | Rubochi |
| RSH | Karshi | Karshi |
| YAB | Yaba | Yaba |
No Abuja code matches what you typed. If what you have is a whole plate number rather than a three-letter code, the lookup reads it for you: Verify a plate number
Plates We Have Checked in Abuja
Our own checks have returned 112 plates registered under Abuja codes. The most recent are below, each one linked to the local government area its code belongs to; the make and the colour are shown exactly as the record gave them.
| Plate | Local Government Area | Make | Colour |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABC-128AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | LEXUS RX 300 | SILVER |
| ABC-419AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | Peugeot 406 1998 | Green |
| ABC-507AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS | BROWN |
| ABC-628AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | TOYOTA COROLLA | NILL |
| ABC-741AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | Honda | Custom |
| ABC-853AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | HONDA ACCORD EOD 2005 | GREY |
| ABC-956AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | INFINITY FX 35 | NIL |
| ABC-111AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | G 63 | Black |
| ABC-222AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | PONTIAC VIBE | SILVER |
| ABC-987AA | Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) | TOYOTA COROLLA | SILVER |
| ABJ-128AA | Abaji Area Council | PEUGEOT 406 | ASH |
| ABJ-174AA | Abaji Area Council | Toyota Camry Saloon | Custom |
No holder name appears here, and none ever will: the Federal Road Safety Corps does not release registration holders to the public, so neither do we.
What Abuja Plate Number Codes Tell You
A code on the plate is the place of registration, not the place the vehicle lives now. Cars are sold across state lines every day and keep their plates until they are re-registered, so a code from Abuja on a car being sold elsewhere is a question to put to the seller rather than a problem in itself.
What the code cannot tell you is who holds the registration. That record sits with the Federal Road Safety Corps and the state motor vehicle administration agency, and it is released to the police, to the courts and to insurers — not to the public, and not to us.
What we can read is the part of the history that happens before a Nigerian plate is ever fitted. Most used cars here arrive from auctions in the United States, and that record — lot photographs, damage, mileage at sale — is tied to the VIN, not to the plate.
Most-Searched Abuja Codes
These are the codes people look up most often. Each one links to its row in the table above.
- ABC plate number meaning: Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Local Government Area, Abuja.
- RBC plate number meaning: Rubochi Local Government Area, Abuja.
- YAB plate number meaning: Yaba Local Government Area, Abuja.
- KWL plate number meaning: Kwali Local Government Area, Abuja.
- RSH plate number meaning: Karshi Local Government Area, Abuja.
- BWR plate number meaning: Bwari Local Government Area, Abuja.
Questions about Abuja plate codes
How many plate number codes does Abuja have?
9, one for each local government area in our directory. They are listed in full in the table on this page.
What does the ABC plate number code mean?
ABC is the code of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Local Government Area in Abuja. A vehicle carrying it was registered there, which is not the same as saying it has stayed there since.
Does the Abuja code on a plate mean the car is in Abuja now?
No. The code records where the registration was issued. A car keeps its plate when it changes hands and only gets a new one when it is re-registered, so the plate tells you where the paperwork started, not where the car sleeps.
Can I find out who owns a plate number registered in Abuja?
Not from a public source, and not from us. Registration holders are personal data held by the FRSC and the state agency; the police, the courts and insurers can reach it through their own channels, a private individual cannot. What is public is the code, and that is what this page publishes.
How do I check a full plate number, not just the code?
Use the plate lookup on our verify page: it takes the whole plate, reads the three-letter prefix and returns the local government area and the state. For the history of the vehicle itself, check it by VIN instead.
Check a whole plate, or check the car
The code tells you where a plate from Abuja was issued. To find out what the vehicle has been through — auction records, damage, mileage and photographs — look it up by VIN.