Plate code

BDJ Plate Number Meaning: Ibadan-North, Oyo

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

Ibadan North, seat at Bodija, registers as BDJ. Its population was about 856,988 in 2017, within 22 km² — roughly 38,954 people to the square kilometre. The code is issued once, at registration, and is not affected by any of that arithmetic.

BDJ Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the BDJ 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
BDJ-128AA Honda Suv Wine
BDJ-174AA Nissan Primera Silver
BDJ-236AA Nissan Primera S/C Brown
BDJ-305AA Rover 620 S/Car Ash
BDJ-507AA Nissan Quest S/C Green
BDJ-628AA M/Benz 200 S/C Blue
BDJ-741AA Toyota Corolla s/c Custom
BDJ-853AA Nissan Primera Black
BDJ-956AA Mercedes Benz 190e s/Car White
BDJ-111AA Honda Accord Red
BDJ-222AA Mazda 626 Blue
BDJ-999AA Mazda 626 Lift Back Green

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 BDJ Plates Look Like

14 Plates checked
Nissan Most common make — 4 of 14 records
Blue Most common colour — 3 of 12 records

Counted from the 14 BDJ 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 BDJ

Local Government Area
Ibadan-North
State
Oyo
Headquarters
Bodija
Population
856,988 (2017)
Area
22 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 BDJ Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so BDJ places the paperwork in Ibadan-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 BDJ plate away from Oyo 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 BDJ plate number

What does the BDJ plate number mean?

BDJ is the registration code of Ibadan-North Local Government Area in Oyo. 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 BDJ plate number from?

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

Have a whole BDJ 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.