Plate code

AGD Plate Number Meaning: Etsako-East, Edo

The AGD plate number is registered in Etsako-East Local Government Area, Edo. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.

Nigerian number plate with the AGD code — Etsako-East, Edo
A plate issued in Etsako-East carries the AGD code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

AGD belongs to Etsako East, whose council sits at Agenebode. About 145,996 people were recorded there in 2006 across 1,133 km², some 129 to the square kilometre. A code is fixed when a vehicle is first registered and follows it through every later sale.

AGD Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the AGD code that our own checks returned data for, most recent first. The make and the colour are shown exactly as the record gave them.

Plate Make Colour Checked
AGD-128AA HONDA ACCORD 2001 CUSTOM
AGD-174AA NISSAN VANNETTE ASH
AGD-305AA TOYOTA CAMRY 2002 BLUE
AGD-419AA AUDI 90 1987 BLUE
AGD-507AA Sunny Custom
AGD-741AA VOLKSWAGEN Passat Ash
AGD-853AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER 2003 RED
AGD-956AA FORD EXPLORER WHITE
AGD-222AA TOYOTA COROLLA RED
AGD-999AA VOLKSWAGEN AUDI 80 OX-BLOOD
AGD-123AA ISUZU 1994 WHITE
AGD-987AA M/BENZ 180 C180 GREY

No holder name appears here, and none ever will: the Federal Road Safety Corps does not release registration holders to the public, so neither do we.

What AGD Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 3 of 12 records

Counted from the 12 AGD plates we hold. It describes what we have seen, not the vehicle register — and the colour is the paint on the car, which is a different question from the colour of the plate itself. What plate colours mean

The District Behind AGD

Local Government Area
Etsako-East
State
Edo
Headquarters
Agenebode
Population
145,996 (2006)
Area
1,133 km²

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the AGD Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so AGD places the paperwork in Etsako-East. It does not follow the car afterwards: a vehicle sold across state lines keeps its plate until it is re-registered, which is why a AGD plate away from Edo is a question for the seller rather than a finding in itself.

The letters also say nothing about the holder, the model or the history of the vehicle. Colours and special series are a separate system, explained on the code hub; what the car itself has been through — auction lots, damage, mileage at sale — is recorded against its VIN and travels with the car even when the plate changes.

Questions about the AGD plate number

What does the AGD plate number mean?

AGD is the registration code of Etsako-East Local Government Area in Edo. A vehicle wearing it was registered there; the three digits after the letters are its serial inside that LGA, and the last two letters are the series.

Which state is a AGD plate number from?

Edo. The code identifies the local government area — Etsako-East — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole AGD plate, not just the code?

The lookup takes the full plate and returns the local government area behind it. For the history of the vehicle — auction records, damage, mileage and photographs — check it by VIN.