Plate code

FFN Plate Number Meaning: Ose, Ondo

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

Ose, administered from Ifon, uses FFN. The 2006 census put 144,901 residents on 1,465 km², near 99 for every square kilometre. The letters are the geographic part of a Nigerian plate; the digits and the closing pair that follow belong to the individual vehicle and decode to nothing.

FFN Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the FFN 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
FFN-174AA NISSAN PRIMERA NA
FFN-305AA 200 Ash
FFN-507AA TOYOTA SINENNA GOLD
FFN-628AA ACCORD GREEN
FFN-853AA TOYOTA COROLLA BLUE
FFN-956AA MERCEDES BENZE C180 BLACK
FFN-222AA NISSAN INFINITY GOLD
FFN-987AA MERCEDES C180 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.

The District Behind FFN

Local Government Area
Ose
State
Ondo
Headquarters
Ifon
Population
144,901 (2006)
Area
1,465 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 FFN Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so FFN places the paperwork in Ose. 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 FFN plate away from Ondo 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 FFN plate number

What does the FFN plate number mean?

FFN is the registration code of Ose Local Government Area in Ondo. 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 FFN plate number from?

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

Have a whole FFN 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.