Plate code

ASB Plate Number Meaning: Oshimili South, Delta

The ASB plate number is registered in Oshimili South Local Government Area, Delta. 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 ASB code — Oshimili South, Delta
A plate issued in Oshimili South carries the ASB code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Oshimili South, administered from Asaba, issues ASB. The 2006 census put 150,034 residents in the district. A code is allocated at registration and is not reissued when a car changes hands, so a plate check reads it back to this district whoever is driving by then.

ASB Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the ASB 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
ASB-128AA Nissan Pathfinder Jeep Green
ASB-174AA V/Wagen Audi 80 Ash
ASB-236AA Toyota Camry Custom
ASB-305AA Opel Vectra Black
ASB-419AA Toyota Camry Sal. Car Red
ASB-507AA Honda Accord Car Ash
ASB-628AA Honda Crv Jeep Blue
ASB-741AA Toyota Corolla Custom
ASB-853AA Nissan Xterra Jeep Black
ASB-956AA Golf 2009 Blue
ASB-111AA TOYOTA camry green
ASB-999AA Toyota Highlander Custom

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 ASB Plates Look Like

14 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 7 of 14 records
Ash Most common colour — 3 of 11 records

Counted from the 14 ASB 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 ASB

Local Government Area
Oshimili South
State
Delta
Headquarters
Asaba
Population
150,034 (2006)

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

What the ASB Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ASB places the paperwork in Oshimili 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 ASB plate away from Delta 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 ASB plate number

What does the ASB plate number mean?

ASB is the registration code of Oshimili South Local Government Area in Delta. 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 ASB plate number from?

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

Have a whole ASB 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.