Plate code

FFA Plate Number Meaning: Offa, Kwara

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

Offa, administered from Offa town, uses FFA, with 88,975 residents at the 2006 census. The letters are the geographic part of the plate; the digits and closing pair that follow belong to the individual vehicle and decode to nothing at all.

FFA Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the FFA 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
FFA-128AA TOYOTA CAMRY CAMRY GOLD
FFA-236AA MISTSUBISHI SPACE WHITE
FFA-419AA KIA CARNIVAL ARMY
FFA-956AA MIT. S/WAGON S/WAGON NAVY BLUE
FFA-111AA Toyota Camry Cream Blue
FFA-222AA HONDA ACCORD ACCORD SILVER
FFA-999AA MERCEDES-BENZ BENZ C200 GREEN
FFA-123AA MAZDA 626 DARK GREEN

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.

The District Behind FFA

Local Government Area
Offa
State
Kwara
Headquarters
Offa
Population
88,975 (2006)

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the FFA Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so FFA places the paperwork in Offa. 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 FFA plate away from Kwara 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 FFA plate number

What does the FFA plate number mean?

FFA is the registration code of Offa Local Government Area in Kwara. 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 FFA plate number from?

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

Codes Next to FFA in Kwara

Codes either side of FFA in the Kwara directory.

All Kwara plate number codes

Have a whole FFA 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.