Plate code

SKN Plate Number Meaning: Tai, Rivers

The SKN plate number is registered in Tai Local Government Area, Rivers. 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 SKN code — Tai, Rivers
A plate issued in Tai carries the SKN code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

SKN belongs to Tai. The 2006 census put 117,797 residents on 159 km², some 741 for every square kilometre. Codes are not batches or years of issue, so an old plate decodes to the same district as a new one, and to this one.

SKN Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the SKN 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
SKN-128AA PEUGEOT 206 ASH
SKN-174AA ACURA CAR CUSTOM
SKN-236AA HONDA CIVIC CUSTOM
SKN-305AA HONDA ACCORD CUSTOM
SKN-419AA Toyota Highlander Custom
SKN-507AA Toyota Picnic Custom
SKN-853AA NISSAN PATHFINDER CUSTOM
SKN-956AA FORD E250 ECONOLINE WHITE
SKN-111AA CHEVROLET AVALANCHE BLACK
SKN-222AA Honda Accord Custom
SKN-999AA TOYOTA 4 RUNNER CUSTOM
SKN-123AA LEXUS GS300 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 SKN Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Honda Most common make — 3 of 13 records

Counted from the 13 SKN 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 SKN

Local Government Area
Tai
State
Rivers
Headquarters
Saakpenwa
Population
117,797 (2006)
Area
159 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 SKN Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so SKN places the paperwork in Tai. 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 SKN plate away from Rivers 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 SKN plate number

What does the SKN plate number mean?

SKN is the registration code of Tai Local Government Area in Rivers. 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 SKN plate number from?

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

Have a whole SKN 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.