Plate code

NKE Plate Number Meaning: Ezza-South, Ebonyi

The NKE plate number is registered in Ezza-South Local Government Area, Ebonyi. 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 NKE code — Ezza-South, Ebonyi
A plate issued in Ezza-South carries the NKE code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Ezza South, administered from Onueke, issues NKE. Around 133,625 people were counted across its 324 km² in 2006, about 412 for every square kilometre. Reading a plate places the registration in a district; identifying the car itself is a job for its chassis number.

NKE Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the NKE 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
NKE-128AA Pgt 406 Car Red
NKE-236AA AUDI 80 80 CUSTOM
NKE-305AA Toyota Camry Custom
NKE-419AA sharan Custom
NKE-507AA Peug. 504 S/W Custom
NKE-628AA Toyota Camry Custom
NKE-741AA TOYOTA SIENNA CUSTOM
NKE-853AA HONDA ACCORD CUSTOM
NKE-956AA VOLKSWAGEN AUDI 80 CUSTOM
NKE-111AA Toyota 4runner Jeep Custom
NKE-999AA OTHERS FX35 GREY
NKE-123AA Peugeot 406 S/Car 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 NKE Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 12 records

Counted from the 13 NKE 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 NKE

Local Government Area
Ezza-South
State
Ebonyi
Headquarters
Onueke
Population
133,625 (2006)
Area
324 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 NKE Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so NKE places the paperwork in Ezza-South. 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 NKE plate away from Ebonyi 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 NKE plate number

What does the NKE plate number mean?

NKE is the registration code of Ezza-South Local Government Area in Ebonyi. 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 NKE plate number from?

Ebonyi. The code identifies the local government area — Ezza-South — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to NKE in Ebonyi

Codes either side of NKE in the Ebonyi directory.

All Ebonyi plate number codes

Have a whole NKE 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.