kakameks:
From what I was made to understand, my plate number is okay just that I needs to be linked to my car. Other guys were having incomplete registration, though those in this category were allowed to do their tint permit validation.

But I just can't understand why the FRSC has a decentralised data base? So if an officer in lagos wants to run a check on a car registered in sokoto. He needs to go to sokoto to be able to access their data? This makes no sense.

Does it mean that the different state chapters of FRSC are different organisations?

kakameks:
^^^
Well as you say, it will be nice for Nigeria to have a central data base for such issues but they should not you it as an excuse to fleece Nigerian of their hard earned money.

There is this disturbing matter, i learnt that if you have a car that has been registered in Lagos (Autoreg) and you reside in another state, you have been updating your yearly car papers in the state you reside (other than Lagos). I was told that if you happen to go back to Lagos and renew the car papers, you will have to repay those years that you did the renewal in another state before they renew your car papers.

Let me put it another way,
I bought and registered a car in Lagos in 2007.
the car was used and papers renewed yearly in, say, Rivers state, from 2007 to 2010. (3 yrs)
say i relocated to Lagos in 2011 and the car papers renewal are due, but i was told at the Lagos Licensing office that i will have to pay for the three previous years i did the registration outside Lagos before a the renewal is done.

Can some one confirm if this is true?

kakameks:
^^^
Well as you say, it will be nice for Nigeria to have a central data base for such issues but they should not you it as an excuse to fleece Nigerian of their hard earned money.

There is this disturbing matter, i learnt that if you have a car that has been registered in Lagos (Autoreg) and you reside in another state, you have been updating your yearly car papers in the state you reside (other than Lagos). I was told that if you happen to go back to Lagos and renew the car papers, you will have to repay those years that you did the renewal in another state before they renew your car papers.

Let me put it another way,
I bought and registered a car in Lagos in 2007.
the car was used and papers renewed yearly in, say, Rivers state, from 2007 to 2010. (3 yrs)
say i relocated to Lagos in 2011 and the car papers renewal are due, but i was told at the Lagos Licensing office that i will have to pay for the three previous years i did the registration outside Lagos before a the renewal is done.

Can some one confirm if this is true?

kakameks:
^^^
Well as you say, it will be nice for Nigeria to have a central data base for such issues but they should not you it as an excuse to fleece Nigerian of their hard earned money.

There is this disturbing matter, i learnt that if you have a car that has been registered in Lagos (Autoreg) and you reside in another state, you have been updating your yearly car papers in the state you reside (other than Lagos). I was told that if you happen to go back to Lagos and renew the car papers, you will have to repay those years that you did the renewal in another state before they renew your car papers.

Let me put it another way,
I bought and registered a car in Lagos in 2007.
the car was used and papers renewed yearly in, say, Rivers state, from 2007 to 2010. (3 yrs)
say i relocated to Lagos in 2011 and the car papers renewal are due, but i was told at the Lagos Licensing office that i will have to pay for the three previous years i did the registration outside Lagos before a the renewal is done.

Can some one confirm if this is true?