RUW Plate Number Meaning: Ibarapa East, Oyo
The RUW plate number is registered in Ibarapa East 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.
Ibarapa East, administered from Eruwa, uses RUW. About 118,226 people lived across its 838 km² in 2006, near 141 to the square kilometre. Codes belong to districts rather than to vehicles, so thousands of unrelated cars carry these three letters.
RUW Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the RUW 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUW-128AA | Volks/Wagen Golf S/Car | Custom | |
| RUW-174AA | Mazda S/Ray | Black | |
| RUW-236AA | Mazda 323 S/Car | Ash | |
| RUW-305AA | Nissan Micra S/C | White | |
| RUW-419AA | Toyota Camry | Ash | |
| RUW-741AA | NISSAN MICRA | BLACK | |
| RUW-956AA | TOYOTA COROLLA | GREY | |
| RUW-111AA | Renault Kango s/c | Red | |
| RUW-222AA | Nissan Pathfinder Jeep | Grey | |
| RUW-123AA | Mitsubishi Galant S/Car | Green |
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 RUW Plates Look Like
Counted from the 10 RUW 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 RUW
- Local Government Area
- Ibarapa East
- State
- Oyo
- Headquarters
- Eruwa
- Population
- 118,226 (2006)
- Area
- 838 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 RUW Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so RUW places the paperwork in Ibarapa East. 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 RUW 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 RUW plate number
What does the RUW plate number mean?
RUW is the registration code of Ibarapa East 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 RUW plate number from?
Oyo. The code identifies the local government area — Ibarapa East — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to RUW in Oyo
Codes either side of RUW in the Oyo directory.
Have a whole RUW 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.