Plate code

BJE Plate Number Meaning: Boki, Cross River

The BJE plate number is registered in Boki Local Government Area, Cross River. 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 BJE code — Boki, Cross River
A plate issued in Boki carries the BJE code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Boki, administered from Boje, uses BJE. The 2006 census put 186,611 residents on 2,771 km², near 67 for every square kilometre. A plate lookup reads three letters back to a district and a state; the owner is not part of what the register publishes.

BJE Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the BJE 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
BJE-128AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF V/W ASH
BJE-174AA Volvo Custom
BJE-236AA Volvo 240 Custom
BJE-305AA Nissan Infinity Jeep Custom
BJE-419AA Mazda 323 Custom
BJE-507AA sharan Custom
BJE-628AA TOYOTA CAMRY GOLD
BJE-956AA Lexus Rx 300 Jeep Custom
BJE-111AA LAND ROVER LR3 Ash
BJE-222AA Nissa Sunny Custom
BJE-123AA TOYOTA CAMRY TOYOTA GOLD
BJE-987AA TOYOTA SIENNA 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 BJE Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 3 of 11 records

Counted from the 12 BJE 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 BJE

Local Government Area
Boki
State
Cross River
Headquarters
Boje
Population
186,611 (2006)
Area
2,771 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 BJE Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so BJE places the paperwork in Boki. 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 BJE plate away from Cross River 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 BJE plate number

What does the BJE plate number mean?

BJE is the registration code of Boki Local Government Area in Cross River. 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 BJE plate number from?

Cross River. The code identifies the local government area — Boki — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to BJE in Cross River

Codes either side of BJE in the Cross River directory.

All Cross River plate number codes

Have a whole BJE 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.