BER Plate Number Meaning: Omuma, Rivers
The BER plate number is registered in Omuma Local Government Area, Rivers. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
BER marks Omuma. The 2006 census put 100,366 residents on 170 km², near 590 for every square kilometre. A plate lookup returns the district and the state behind three letters — the register publishes no owners, and no part of a plate encodes one.
BER Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the BER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BER-128AA | HYUNDAI TUCSON | CUSTOM | |
| BER-174AA | VOLKWAGEN GOLF | CUSTOM | |
| BER-305AA | Toyota Hilux | Custom | |
| BER-419AA | Mazda 626 | Custom | |
| BER-741AA | V/WAGEN GOLF | CUSTOM | |
| BER-853AA | MAZDA 323 | CUSTOM | |
| BER-956AA | TOYOTA CAMRY 2000 | CUSTOM | |
| BER-999AA | TOYOTA PICNIC | BLUE | |
| BER-123AA | HONDA ACCORD | WHITE | |
| BER-987AA | V/WAGEN PASSAT PASSAT | ASH |
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 BER Plates Look Like
Counted from the 10 BER 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 BER
- Local Government Area
- Omuma
- State
- Rivers
- Headquarters
- Eberi
- Population
- 100,366 (2006)
- Area
- 170 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 BER Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so BER places the paperwork in Omuma. 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 BER plate away from Rivers 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 BER plate number
What does the BER plate number mean?
BER is the registration code of Omuma Local Government Area in Rivers. 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 BER plate number from?
Rivers. The code identifies the local government area — Omuma — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to BER in Rivers
Codes either side of BER in the Rivers directory.
Have a whole BER 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.