Nigeria license plate: Standard
Issued today 2011 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). One of 8 Nigeria license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL999LL, for exampleBDG551SS(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
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Size
- 308 × 155.6 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- The ordinary Nigerian plate. Private and commercial are one series with two lettering colours. A Vehicle Identification Tag (Form MVA 25, reg. 38) carrying the same number is displayed on the rear windscreen, a second carrier of the registration, not a second series.
- About its years
- 2011 is the commonly-given first-issue year of the national uniform scheme and is NOT statutory, the instrument that gazettes the design is dated 2012 and does not state a rollout date. The 2012 regulations are the instrument in force over the format; the 2011 date describes issuance.
Legal basis and sources
- reg. 39(4)(f) LGA-first ordering; reg. 39(2)(a)-(b) private blue / commercial red on white; reg. 39(1) 12.125x6.125 in; reg. 39(3)(a) flag top-left; reg. 37(4) 60 m legibility; reg. 38 Form MVA 25 tag; Schedule 5 Figs... https://sabilaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/National-Road-Traffic-Regulations-2012.pdf
- sabilaw.org https://sabilaw.org/national-road-traffic-regulations-2012-with-2016-amendments/
This plate in your app
The series id is ng-standard-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-standard-2011")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ng/ng-standard-2011.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ng/ng-standard-2011/template.svg
