Plate code

LEL Plate Number Meaning: Ile-Oluji-Okeigbo, Ondo

The LEL plate number is registered in Ile-Oluji-Okeigbo 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 LEL code — Ile-Oluji-Okeigbo, Ondo
A plate issued in Ile-Oluji-Okeigbo carries the LEL code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

LEL is the Ile Oluji/Okeigbo code, administered from Ile Oluji. Nigerian codes are permanent markers of a local government area: not recycled between districts, not reissued as batches and untouched by a sale. That is why a three-letter lookup returns the same district for a plate made fifteen years ago as for one made this week.

LEL Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the LEL 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
LEL-305AA CAMRY ASH
LEL-419AA NISSAN SUNNY RED
LEL-741AA TOYOTA CAMRY WINE
LEL-853AA HYUNDAI SONATA WHITE
LEL-956AA TOYOTA SIENNA GOLD
LEL-111AA Volvo S60 Custom
LEL-222AA Highlander Red
LEL-999AA TOYOTA CAMRY BLUE
LEL-123AA Pathfinder Grey
LEL-987AA MITSUBISHI L 200 PICK UP 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 LEL Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 5 of 10 records

Counted from the 10 LEL 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 LEL

Local Government Area
Ile-Oluji-Okeigbo
State
Ondo
Headquarters
Ile Oluji

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

What the LEL Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so LEL places the paperwork in Ile-Oluji-Okeigbo. 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 LEL 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 LEL plate number

What does the LEL plate number mean?

LEL is the registration code of Ile-Oluji-Okeigbo 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 LEL plate number from?

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

Have a whole LEL 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.