BNS Plate Number Meaning: Obanliku, Cross River
The BNS plate number is registered in Obanliku 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.
Obanliku, seat at Sankwala, issues BNS. Around 110,324 people lived across its 1,057 km² in 2006, about 104 to the square kilometre. Codes belong to districts rather than to vehicles, so thousands of unrelated cars carry these same three letters.
BNS Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the BNS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BNS-128AA | Toyota Camry Saloon Car. | Custom | |
| BNS-174AA | Kia Saloon | Custom | |
| BNS-236AA | Nissan Sunny Saloon Car. | Custom | |
| BNS-305AA | Nissan Almera | Custom | |
| BNS-419AA | Mits.Carisma | Custom | |
| BNS-507AA | Rover Range Rover | Custom | |
| BNS-741AA | CHRYSLER PARCIFIC JEEP | SILVER | |
| BNS-111AA | Peugeot 306 | Custom | |
| BNS-222AA | Hyundai Elantra Saloon Car. | Custom | |
| BNS-999AA | TOYOTA TACOMA | CUSTOM | |
| BNS-123AA | Nissan Primera | Custom | |
| BNS-987AA | TOYOTA AVANZA | 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 BNS Plates Look Like
Counted from the 12 BNS 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 BNS
- Local Government Area
- Obanliku
- State
- Cross River
- Headquarters
- Sankwala
- Population
- 110,324 (2006)
- Area
- 1,057 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 BNS Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so BNS places the paperwork in Obanliku. 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 BNS 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 BNS plate number
What does the BNS plate number mean?
BNS is the registration code of Obanliku 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 BNS plate number from?
Cross River. The code identifies the local government area — Obanliku — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to BNS in Cross River
Codes either side of BNS in the Cross River directory.
Have a whole BNS 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.