Plate code

NRK Plate Number Meaning: Ibadan-North-West, Oyo

The NRK plate number is registered in Ibadan-North-West 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 NRK code — Ibadan-North-West, Oyo
A plate issued in Ibadan-North-West carries the NRK code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Ibadan North-West registers as NRK, from Ibadan. Around 152,834 people were recorded there in 2006 within 26 km², roughly 5,878 for every square kilometre. A plate check answers where a vehicle was registered, and a VIN check has to answer the rest.

NRK Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the NRK 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
NRK-174AA Nissan Primera S/Car Blue
NRK-236AA Toyota Sienna Blue
NRK-305AA Passat s/Cat Custom
NRK-419AA V/Wagen Golf3 Black
NRK-628AA Toyota Tercel s/c Custom
NRK-741AA Toyota Previa Custom
NRK-853AA Honda Accord s/Car Grey
NRK-956AA Nissan Primera s/Car Custom
NRK-111AA Nissan Primera S/Car Blue
NRK-222AA Toyota Rav 43 Custom
NRK-999AA Mitsubishi Space Wagon Blue
NRK-123AA Nissan Vanette Red

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 NRK Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Nissan Most common make — 4 of 12 records
Blue Most common colour — 4 of 8 records

Counted from the 13 NRK 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 NRK

Local Government Area
Ibadan-North-West
State
Oyo
Headquarters
Ibadan
Population
152,834 (2006)
Area
26 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 NRK Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so NRK places the paperwork in Ibadan-North-West. 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 NRK 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 NRK plate number

What does the NRK plate number mean?

NRK is the registration code of Ibadan-North-West 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 NRK plate number from?

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

Have a whole NRK 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.