Plate code

JRV Plate Number Meaning: Oji-River, Enugu

The JRV plate number is registered in Oji-River Local Government Area, Enugu. 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 JRV code — Oji-River, Enugu
A plate issued in Oji-River carries the JRV code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Oji River, administered from Oji-River town, registers vehicles as JRV. Around 126,587 residents lived across its 403 km² in 2006, about 314 for every square kilometre. A code is a registration fact and survives every change of hands. The code was issued with the papers and outlives most of them.

JRV Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the JRV 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
JRV-128AA Honda Accord S/Car Gold
JRV-174AA V/Wagen Passat Custom
JRV-305AA Nissan X Terra Ash
JRV-419AA TOYOTA CAMRY 2005 CUSTOM
JRV-507AA Nissan Sunny Grey
JRV-741AA Rav 4 Jeep Custom
JRV-853AA TOYOTA RAV-4 BLUE
JRV-956AA NISSAN B/BIRD CUSTOM
JRV-222AA TOYOTA CAMRY 1995 CUSTOM
JRV-123AA Ford 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 JRV Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Nissan Most common make — 3 of 9 records

Counted from the 10 JRV 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 JRV

Local Government Area
Oji-River
State
Enugu
Headquarters
Oji-River
Population
126,587 (2006)
Area
403 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 JRV Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so JRV places the paperwork in Oji-River. 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 JRV plate away from Enugu 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 JRV plate number

What does the JRV plate number mean?

JRV is the registration code of Oji-River Local Government Area in Enugu. 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 JRV plate number from?

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

Have a whole JRV 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.