Plate code

NGN Plate Number Meaning: Ngor-Okpala, Imo

The NGN plate number is registered in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area, Imo. 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 NGN code — Ngor-Okpala, Imo
A plate issued in Ngor-Okpala carries the NGN code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

NGN is issued in Ngor Okpala, administered from Umunekengor. The 2006 census put 159,932 residents on 561 km², about 285 for every square kilometre. The letters stay with the car until it is registered in another district, whoever is driving it in the meantime.

NGN Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the NGN 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
NGN-128AA Nissan Vanette Custom
NGN-174AA Honda Odyssey Custom
NGN-236AA Toyota Sienna Brown
NGN-305AA V/Wagen Caddy Custom
NGN-419AA Passat Custom
NGN-507AA V/W Passat Custom
NGN-628AA Toyota Corolla Custom
NGN-741AA Hundai Elantra Custom
NGN-853AA Lexus Es 300 Custom
NGN-956AA Toyota Venza Car Custom
NGN-111AA Toyota Tacoma P/Up Custom
NGN-222AA V/ Wagen Passat Sal. 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 NGN Plates Look Like

15 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 6 of 13 records

Counted from the 15 NGN 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 NGN

Local Government Area
Ngor-Okpala
State
Imo
Headquarters
Umunekengor
Population
159,932 (2006)
Area
561 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 NGN Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so NGN places the paperwork in Ngor-Okpala. 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 NGN plate away from Imo 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 NGN plate number

What does the NGN plate number mean?

NGN is the registration code of Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area in Imo. 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 NGN plate number from?

Imo. The code identifies the local government area — Ngor-Okpala — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to NGN in Imo

Codes either side of NGN in the Imo directory.

All Imo plate number codes

Have a whole NGN 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.