How to verify your Vehicle Plate Number

It is no longer news that the plate number of your car may be in use by another car. It is no secret that wherever an original is, the fake could be an earshot away. It is rather worrisome according to investigations made that out of every 10 cars on the road with Lagos and Abuja number plates, at least four are fake.
The Federal Road Safety Corps, the agency charged with the responsibility of issuing vehicle plate numbers has made it easy for vehicle owners in Nigeria to verify the authenticity of their vehicle plate numbers.

According to the FRSC, in summary, the verification portal provides four options when verifying number plates depending on the stage of registration as follows:

1. a) Number not produced but tried to be registered by any applicant will result in “Invalid Number Plate”
2. b)  When a number is produced but not registered/ data not uploaded, this is the message you get, “Number produced but not Registered”
3. c) When a number is produced and registered without genuine Insurance policy that is verifiable by NIIDB, the message you get is what the complainant got as “Number plate has been assigned to Lexus Jeep. However, vehicle registration is yet to be completed.”
4. d) When a registration is fully completed with genuine Insurance Policy resulting in the printing of Proof of Ownership, message will be “Number plate has been produced by FRSC and assigned to TOYOTA HIGHLANDER on 6/11/2013”

To verify your number plate, you can use any of the following:

1. Visit www.nvisng.organd verify the number plate
2. Text verifyplateno (Plate Number) to 33324 on your mobile phone. E.g. verifyplateno ABC000JR.

iii. Visit the FRSC Desk Officers at the SBIRs (State Board of Internal Revenue)

For further enquiries, contact:

1. CC Imoh Etuk on 08077690055
2. CC Bisi Kazeem on 08056294003
3. DRC Michael Odiaka on 0815545807

 Photo Source: FRSC