UDU Plate Number Meaning: Obudu, Cross River
The UDU plate number is registered in Obudu Local Government Area, Cross River. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
UDU is the Obudu code, administered from Obudu town in Cross River State. Every Nigerian plate begins with three letters for the district where the vehicle was registered; they are fixed at that moment and unchanged by any later sale. That is the whole of what a code encodes — a place, not a person.
UDU Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the UDU 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UDU-174AA | V/WAGEN VENTO V/W | BLUE | |
| UDU-236AA | Toyota Camry | Custom | |
| UDU-305AA | Nissan Sunny | Custom | |
| UDU-419AA | Toyota Matrix | Red | |
| UDU-628AA | HONDA ACURA | CUSTOM | |
| UDU-741AA | Corolla | Custom | |
| UDU-853AA | TOYOTA SIENNA | ASH | |
| UDU-111AA | V/W Audi 80 S/Car | Custom | |
| UDU-222AA | Mit Colt | Custom | |
| UDU-123AA | Golf 3 | Custom | |
| UDU-987AA | HONDA ELEMENT | ASH |
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 UDU Plates Look Like
Counted from the 11 UDU 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 UDU
- Local Government Area
- Obudu
- State
- Cross River
- Headquarters
- Obudu
Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.
What the UDU Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so UDU places the paperwork in Obudu. 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 UDU plate away from Cross River 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 UDU plate number
What does the UDU plate number mean?
UDU is the registration code of Obudu Local Government Area in Cross River. 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 UDU plate number from?
Cross River. The code identifies the local government area — Obudu — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to UDU in Cross River
Codes either side of UDU in the Cross River directory.
Have a whole UDU 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.