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Imagine this: you’re held up by traffic officers, and you’re being quizzed about the validity of your vehicle’s registration. The documents are alright- at least, that’s what you tell them –and your driving is impeccable. You try to convince them that you’re a good citizen driver, but they’re having none of it. There’s even the suggestion from one of them that your car’s number plate isn’t authentic.

And you’re running late for an extremely important meeting.

The Lagos State Government has introduced a quick and convenient way to deal with this sort of number plate authenticity palaver. The Motor Vehicle Registration Search (MVRS), powered by the state’s ministry of science and technology, allows drivers and law enforcement agents to check for the registration details of their vehicles online. The search portal is connected to a registration directory containing information on vehicles registered in Lagos, and elsewhere in the country.

How It Works

Follow these steps to double-check your vehicle registration details with the MVRS:

  1. Log on to the Motor Vehicle Registration Search website, lsmvaapvs.org.
  2. Enter your vehicle plate number in the search box. Plate numbers should be typed without spaces or other symbols apart from the numbers and alphabets e.g. YM345DB (they’re also not case sensitive- so you may equally type ym345db).
  3. Click the search button. If the plate number entered is valid, the vehicle’s registration details (owner’s name, colour, model, chassis number, issue date, e.t.c.) will be displayed as the search result. If it’s not, you’ll get the response, “plate number is invalid!.”

Number plates from states apart from Lagos can also be verified using the MVRS.


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This article was first published on 29th December 2016

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Ikenna Nwachukwu holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He loves to look at the world through multiple lenses- economic, political, religious and philosophical- and to write about what he observes in a witty, yet reflective style.


Comments (8)

8 thoughts on “How to Check the Validity of Your Vehicle’s Plate Number Online Using Lagos State’s MVRS”


  • [* Shield plugin marked this comment as “trash”. Reason: Google reCAPTCHA was not submitted. *]
    pls, it has not be indicating owners name when search for vehicles owners. why pls?


  • Is this platform really working… ?


  • The owners name does not show, why?


  • What is wrong with this number plate platform. It’s not been working for some days now.


  • It doesn’t correlates with what the frsc has….


  • I have tried and the technology worked but did not display owner’s name which is the most important information as indicated above.
    Kindly adjust ASAP.

    thanks.


  • IT DIDN’T WORK.

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