Plate code

AKU Plate Number Meaning: Oshimili-North, Delta

The AKU plate number is registered in Oshimili-North Local Government Area, Delta. 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 AKU code — Oshimili-North, Delta
A plate issued in Oshimili-North carries the AKU code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

AKU belongs to Oshimili North, whose seat is at Akwukwu Igbo. About 118,540 people were recorded there in 2006. The letters are the geographic part of a plate; the digits and the closing pair identify the individual vehicle and decode to nothing at all.

AKU Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the AKU 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
AKU-128AA Mazda 323 Car Blue
AKU-174AA Hyundai Xg30 Ash
AKU-236AA Volkswagen Vento S/Car Custom
AKU-305AA Audi 80 Red
AKU-507AA M/Benz 190 S/Car Custom
AKU-628AA Nissan Pathfinder Custom
AKU-741AA Liberty Jeep Custom
AKU-853AA Toyota Sienna Custom
AKU-956AA Toyota Carinae Sal Blue
AKU-111AA Toyota Sienna Ash
AKU-222AA Mitsubishi Space Wagon Custom
AKU-999AA V/W Golf 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 AKU Plates Look Like

14 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 3 of 14 records

Counted from the 14 AKU 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 AKU

Local Government Area
Oshimili-North
State
Delta
Headquarters
Akwukwu Igbo
Population
118,540 (2006)

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

What the AKU Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so AKU places the paperwork in Oshimili-North. 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 AKU plate away from Delta 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 AKU plate number

What does the AKU plate number mean?

AKU is the registration code of Oshimili-North Local Government Area in Delta. 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 AKU plate number from?

Delta. The code identifies the local government area — Oshimili-North — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole AKU 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.