Nigeria license plate: Fancy

Issued today 2012 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). One of 8 Nigeria license plates.

Nigeria license plate, Fancy (2012 to today), sample XUJYZZTT

Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLLL, for example XUJYZZTT (L is any letter)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2012 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
About this plate
FRSC's own 2024 Service Level Agreements to PEBEC price the classes (production / State disposal, in naira): standard private 5,000/12,500; MV fancy 40,000/80,000; motorcycle 1,500/3,000; articulated 10,000/20,000; out-of-series 20,000/40,000; government fancy MV 20,000/20,000.

Legal basis and sources

  1. sabilaw.org https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf
  2. frsc.gov.ng https://frsc.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SLAs-TO-PEBEC.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ng-fancy. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Nigeria's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ng \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ng-fancy")'