Nigeria license plate: Forces

Issued today 2011 to today. Military plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). One of 8 Nigeria license plates.

Nigeria license plate, Forces (2011 to today), sample TRP471ZB

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL999LL, for example TRP471ZB (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
2011 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Size
308 × 155.6 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Armed forces and para-military bodies. THE POLICE SHARE THIS SERIES rather than having their own: the instrument groups them under the para-military black-lettering figure (Schedule 5 Fig.

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg. 39(2)(e) black lettering for military; reg. 39(3)(c) Coat of Arms; Schedule 5 Fig. 7(b) military and Fig. https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ng-forces-2011. 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-forces-2011")'