Plate code

AME Plate Number Meaning: Ogbomoso-South, Oyo

The AME plate number is registered in Ogbomoso-South Local Government Area, Oyo. 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 AME code — Ogbomoso-South, Oyo
A plate issued in Ogbomoso-South carries the AME code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Ogbomosho South, administered from Ogbomosho, uses AME. The 2006 census put 225,815 residents on 88 km², near 2,566 for every square kilometre. The letters are the geographic part of the plate; the digits and closing pair belong to the individual car.

AME Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the AME 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
AME-128AA V/Wagon Golf 3 Blue
AME-174AA Mazda 626 S/C Green
AME-236AA Nissan Sunny S/Car Red
AME-305AA Honda Accord S/Car Custom
AME-419AA Honda Accord Black
AME-628AA Mazda 323 S/Car Ash
AME-741AA Renault Megane S/Car Ash
AME-853AA Accord Custom
AME-956AA Lancer Black
AME-111AA Honda Accord Gold
AME-222AA Nissan Micra S/Car White
AME-999AA Sienna Green

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 AME Plates Look Like

14 Plates checked
Honda Most common make — 4 of 12 records
Ash Most common colour — 3 of 11 records

Counted from the 14 AME 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 AME

Local Government Area
Ogbomoso-South
State
Oyo
Headquarters
Ogbomosho
Population
225,815 (2006)
Area
88 km²
Also spelled
Ogbomosho South

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

What the AME Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so AME places the paperwork in Ogbomoso-South. 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 AME plate away from Oyo 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 AME plate number

What does the AME plate number mean?

AME is the registration code of Ogbomoso-South Local Government Area in Oyo. 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 AME plate number from?

Oyo. The code identifies the local government area — Ogbomoso-South — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole AME 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.