Plate code

SKL Plate Number Meaning: Ethiope-East, Delta

The SKL plate number is registered in Ethiope-East Local Government Area, Delta. 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 SKL code — Ethiope-East, Delta
A plate issued in Ethiope-East carries the SKL code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Ethiope East, administered from Isiokolo, issues SKL. The 2006 census recorded 200,792 people over 380 km², about 528 for every square kilometre. Reading the first three letters is the quickest way to place a plate, and the only thing they can be read for.

SKL Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the SKL 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
SKL-128AA V/W Golf 2 Saloon Black
SKL-174AA Audi 80 Wagon Car Custom
SKL-236AA V / Wagen Golf 3 Wagon Custom
SKL-305AA Honda Accord Custom
SKL-419AA Nissan Car Custom
SKL-507AA Toyota Camry Custom
SKL-628AA M/Benz C 240 Custom
SKL-741AA NISSAN FRONTIER CUSTOM
SKL-956AA Nissan Primera S/Car Blue
SKL-111AA NISSAN almera custom
SKL-222AA Toyota Avensis Wagon Custom
SKL-999AA HONDA ACCORD 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 SKL Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Nissan Most common make — 4 of 13 records

Counted from the 13 SKL 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 SKL

Local Government Area
Ethiope-East
State
Delta
Headquarters
Isiokolo
Population
200,792 (2006)
Area
380 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 SKL Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so SKL places the paperwork in Ethiope-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 SKL plate away from Delta 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 SKL plate number

What does the SKL plate number mean?

SKL is the registration code of Ethiope-East Local Government Area in Delta. 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 SKL plate number from?

Delta. The code identifies the local government area — Ethiope-East — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole SKL 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.