Plate code

BDS Plate Number Meaning: Ola Oluwa, Osun

The BDS plate number is registered in Ola Oluwa Local Government Area, Osun. 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 BDS code — Ola Oluwa, Osun
A plate issued in Ola Oluwa carries the BDS code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

BDS belongs to Ola Oluwa, whose seat is at Bode-Osi. About 76,593 people were recorded there in 2006 across 328 km², some 234 to the square kilometre. A code is fixed at first registration and follows the vehicle through every sale that comes after it.

BDS Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the BDS 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
BDS-174AA Nissan Sunny Blue

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 BDS

Local Government Area
Ola Oluwa
State
Osun
Headquarters
Bode-Osi
Population
76,593 (2006)
Area
328 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 BDS Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so BDS places the paperwork in Ola Oluwa. 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 BDS plate away from Osun 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 BDS plate number

What does the BDS plate number mean?

BDS is the registration code of Ola Oluwa Local Government Area in Osun. 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 BDS plate number from?

Osun. The code identifies the local government area — Ola Oluwa — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to BDS in Osun

Codes either side of BDS in the Osun directory.

All Osun plate number codes

Have a whole BDS 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.