Plate code

SEY Plate Number Meaning: Iseyin, Oyo

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

SEY is the Iseyin code, run from Iseyin town. Around 365,300 residents (2022) live over 1,458 km², roughly 251 for every square kilometre. The letters were issued with the registration and travel with the vehicle, not with the person driving it.

SEY Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the SEY 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
SEY-128AA Honda Accord S/Car Custom
SEY-174AA Nissan Micra Custom
SEY-236AA Nissan Xterra Ash
SEY-305AA V/Wagen Golf S/Car Custom
SEY-419AA Ford Bus Ash
SEY-628AA Gulf Blue
SEY-741AA Opel Astra Ash
SEY-853AA TOYOTA COROLLA RED
SEY-111AA V/W Audi 80 S/Car Red
SEY-222AA Zusuki Belano S/Car Custom
SEY-123AA Korando Jeep Black

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 SEY Plates Look Like

11 Plates checked
Ash Most common colour — 3 of 7 records

Counted from the 11 SEY 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 SEY

Local Government Area
Iseyin
State
Oyo
Headquarters
Iseyin
Population
365,300 (2022)
Area
1,458 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 SEY Code Does and Does Not Tell You

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

What does the SEY plate number mean?

SEY is the registration code of Iseyin 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 SEY plate number from?

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

Have a whole SEY 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.