Plate code

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.

Nigerian number plate with the UDU code — Obudu, Cross River
A plate issued in Obudu carries the UDU code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

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

11 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 11 records

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.

All Cross River plate number codes

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.