Plate code

JND Plate Number Meaning: Oyo West, Oyo

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

Oyo West, seat at Ojongbodu, registers as JND. The 2006 census counted 136,236 people across 526 km², about 259 for every square kilometre. Codes are not batches or years of issue, so an old plate decodes to the same district as a new one.

JND Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the JND 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
JND-128AA Toyota Hilux P/Up White
JND-174AA V/Wagen Golf 3 Blue
JND-236AA Mits Lancer s/Car Red
JND-305AA Toyota Corolla Car Custom
JND-419AA Toyota Corolla Red
JND-507AA Primera Green
JND-853AA Nissan Micra Red
JND-111AA Honda Accord S/Car Wine
JND-222AA Nissan Sunny s/Car Custom
JND-123AA Nissan Micra S/Car White

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 JND Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Nissan Most common make — 4 of 10 records
Red Most common colour — 3 of 8 records

Counted from the 10 JND 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 JND

Local Government Area
Oyo West
State
Oyo
Headquarters
Ojongbodu
Population
136,236 (2006)
Area
526 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 JND Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so JND places the paperwork in Oyo West. 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 JND plate away from Oyo 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 JND plate number

What does the JND plate number mean?

JND is the registration code of Oyo West Local Government Area in Oyo. 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 JND plate number from?

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

Have a whole JND 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.