Plate code

AKP Plate Number Meaning: Biase, Cross River

The AKP plate number is registered in Biase Local Government Area, Cross River. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.

Nigerian number plate with the AKP code — Biase, Cross River
A plate issued in Biase carries the AKP code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Biase, seat at Akpet-Central, registers vehicles as AKP. Its population was 169,183 at the 2006 census, spread over 1,310 km² — roughly 129 for every square kilometre. The code is set when a car is first papered and follows it through every later sale.

AKP Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the AKP code that our own checks returned data for, most recent first. The make and the colour are shown exactly as the record gave them.

Plate Make Colour Checked
AKP-128AA NISSAN SUNNY SILVER
AKP-174AA NISSAN INFINTY NAVY BLUE
AKP-236AA Peugeot 406 Custom
AKP-305AA Toyota Hilux Custom
AKP-419AA Grande Cherokee Jeep Custom
AKP-507AA Ivm Custom
AKP-741AA PICNIC Custom
AKP-853AA Pathfinder Custom
AKP-956AA Golf Custom
AKP-111AA MAZDA 626 626 CUSTOM
AKP-222AA Toyota Highlander Custom
AKP-999AA HONDA ACCORD BLACK

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 AKP Plates Look Like

14 Plates checked
Nissan Most common make — 3 of 13 records

Counted from the 14 AKP plates we hold. It describes what we have seen, not the vehicle register — and the colour is the paint on the car, which is a different question from the colour of the plate itself. What plate colours mean

The District Behind AKP

Local Government Area
Biase
State
Cross River
Headquarters
Akpet-Central
Population
169,183 (2006)
Area
1,310 km²

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the AKP Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so AKP places the paperwork in Biase. It does not follow the car afterwards: a vehicle sold across state lines keeps its plate until it is re-registered, which is why a AKP plate away from Cross River is a question for the seller rather than a finding in itself.

The letters also say nothing about the holder, the model or the history of the vehicle. Colours and special series are a separate system, explained on the code hub; what the car itself has been through — auction lots, damage, mileage at sale — is recorded against its VIN and travels with the car even when the plate changes.

Questions about the AKP plate number

What does the AKP plate number mean?

AKP is the registration code of Biase Local Government Area in Cross River. A vehicle wearing it was registered there; the three digits after the letters are its serial inside that LGA, and the last two letters are the series.

Which state is a AKP plate number from?

Cross River. The code identifies the local government area — Biase — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to AKP in Cross River

Codes either side of AKP in the Cross River directory.

All Cross River plate number codes

Have a whole AKP plate, not just the code?

The lookup takes the full plate and returns the local government area behind it. For the history of the vehicle — auction records, damage, mileage and photographs — check it by VIN.