Plate code

CKK Plate Number Meaning: Yala, Cross River

The CKK plate number is registered in Yala 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 CKK code — Yala, Cross River
A plate issued in Yala carries the CKK code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

CKK is the Yala code, with its seat at Okpoma. The 2006 census put 210,843 residents on 1,739 km², near 121 for every square kilometre. Three letters, digits, then two letters — that is a Nigerian plate, and only the first group is a place.

CKK Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the CKK 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
CKK-128AA SKODA OCTAVIA A5 ELEGANCE 1.6L CUSTOM
CKK-174AA Toyota Hilux P/Up Custom
CKK-236AA INFINITY JEEP GOLD
CKK-305AA Volvo 240 Custom
CKK-507AA Nissan Primera Custom
CKK-628AA Nissan Almera Custom
CKK-741AA 80 Custom
CKK-853AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER GOLD
CKK-111AA TOYOTA CAMRY CAMRY RED
CKK-222AA TOYOTA TACOMA BLUE
CKK-999AA Sienna Custom
CKK-123AA Toyota 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 CKK Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 6 of 12 records

Counted from the 13 CKK 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 CKK

Local Government Area
Yala
State
Cross River
Headquarters
Okpoma
Population
210,843 (2006)
Area
1,739 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 CKK Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so CKK places the paperwork in Yala. 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 CKK 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 CKK plate number

What does the CKK plate number mean?

CKK is the registration code of Yala 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 CKK plate number from?

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

Codes Next to CKK in Cross River

Codes either side of CKK in the Cross River directory.

All Cross River plate number codes

Have a whole CKK 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.