Plate code

ANC Plate Number Meaning: Kubau, Kaduna

The ANC plate number is registered in Kubau Local Government Area, Kaduna. 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 ANC code — Kubau, Kaduna
A plate issued in Kubau carries the ANC code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

ANC is issued in Kubau, the district administered from Anchau. The 2006 census counted 282,045 residents across 2,505 km², about 113 people to the square kilometre. The opening three letters of a Nigerian plate name the local government area of registration, and this district holds these.

ANC Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the ANC 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
ANC-128AA V/WAGEN GOLF CUSTOM
ANC-174AA HONDA CRV Custom
ANC-236AA PEUGEOT peugeot - 406 CUSTOM
ANC-507AA HONDA HONDA CRV Custom
ANC-853AA TOYOTA COROLLA DARK ASH
ANC-956AA PEUGEOT 406 BLUE
ANC-222AA TOYOTA CAMRY CAMRY ASH
ANC-999AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER GREY
ANC-123AA TOYOTA RAV 4 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.

The District Behind ANC

Local Government Area
Kubau
State
Kaduna
Headquarters
Anchau
Population
282,045 (2006)
Area
2,505 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 ANC Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ANC places the paperwork in Kubau. 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 ANC plate away from Kaduna 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 ANC plate number

What does the ANC plate number mean?

ANC is the registration code of Kubau Local Government Area in Kaduna. 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 ANC plate number from?

Kaduna. The code identifies the local government area — Kubau — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole ANC 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.