Plate code

BLF Plate Number Meaning: Udenu, Enugu

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

BLF is issued in Udenu. The 2006 census put 178,466 people on 248 km², some 720 to the square kilometre. A plate check answers where a registration was opened, and a chassis number has to answer everything else about the car.

BLF Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the BLF 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
BLF-128AA Volkswagen Golf Car Custom
BLF-174AA Chevrolet Venture Custom
BLF-236AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1999 RED
BLF-741AA 200 Custom
BLF-853AA CR-V Custom
BLF-956AA Corolla Custom
BLF-111AA Toyota Camry Car Custom
BLF-222AA Peug. 505 Custom
BLF-123AA Toyota Matrix Custom
BLF-987AA Camry 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 BLF Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 9 records

Counted from the 10 BLF 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 BLF

Local Government Area
Udenu
State
Enugu
Headquarters
Obollo-Afor
Population
178,466 (2006)
Area
248 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 BLF Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so BLF places the paperwork in Udenu. 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 BLF plate away from Enugu 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 BLF plate number

What does the BLF plate number mean?

BLF is the registration code of Udenu Local Government Area in Enugu. 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 BLF plate number from?

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

Have a whole BLF 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.