Plate code

MNY Plate Number Meaning: Akinyele, Oyo

The MNY plate number is registered in Akinyele 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 MNY code — Akinyele, Oyo
A plate issued in Akinyele carries the MNY code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

MNY is issued in Akinyele, run from Moniya. The 2006 census put 211,811 residents on 432.20 km², about 490 for every square kilometre. The letters are allocated to the district and are not reissued anywhere else in the state. Everything else about the car comes from its chassis number.

MNY Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the MNY 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
MNY-128AA Audi 100 S/Car Custom
MNY-174AA Volkswagen Golf Iii Blue
MNY-236AA Pgt. 406 S/C Ash
MNY-305AA V/Wagen Golf S/Car Custom
MNY-419AA Nissan Micra White
MNY-507AA Nissan Micra s/Car Custom
MNY-628AA Pgt 504 Custom
MNY-741AA Toyota Corolla Silver
MNY-853AA Nissan Primera Blue
MNY-956AA Nissan B/Bird Wagon Red
MNY-111AA TOYOTA HIGH LANDER CUSTOM
MNY-222AA Nissan Pathfinder Jeep Wine

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 MNY Plates Look Like

15 Plates checked
Nissan Most common make — 5 of 15 records

Counted from the 15 MNY 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 MNY

Local Government Area
Akinyele
State
Oyo
Headquarters
Moniya
Population
211,811 (2006)
Area
432.2 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 MNY Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so MNY places the paperwork in Akinyele. 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 MNY 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 MNY plate number

What does the MNY plate number mean?

MNY is the registration code of Akinyele 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 MNY plate number from?

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

Have a whole MNY 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.