Plate code

AWD Plate Number Meaning: Orsu, Imo

The AWD plate number is registered in Orsu Local Government Area, Imo. 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 AWD code — Orsu, Imo
A plate issued in Orsu carries the AWD code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

AWD is the Orsu code, administered from Awoidemili. Nigerian codes are allocated to local government areas permanently, never handed out as batches or series, so these three letters resolve to this district whether the plate was issued last month or fifteen years ago. That permanence is what makes a plate directory usable at all.

AWD Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the AWD 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
AWD-128AA Nissan Primera S/C Custom
AWD-174AA MITSUBISHI LANCER CUSTOM
AWD-236AA Toyota Corolla Custom
AWD-305AA M/Benz 608 Bus Custom
AWD-419AA V/Wagen Audi 80 Custom
AWD-507AA Caravan Custom
AWD-628AA HYUNDAI SANTAFE CUSTOM
AWD-741AA C220 Custom
AWD-853AA HYUNDAI SANTAMO CUSTOM
AWD-956AA Sienna Custom
AWD-222AA M/Benz 190e Custom
AWD-999AA TOYOTA CAMRY 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 AWD Plates Look Like

14 Plates checked
Mercedes-Benz Most common make — 3 of 11 records

Counted from the 14 AWD 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 AWD

Local Government Area
Orsu
State
Imo
Headquarters
Awoidemili

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

What the AWD Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so AWD places the paperwork in Orsu. 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 AWD plate away from Imo 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 AWD plate number

What does the AWD plate number mean?

AWD is the registration code of Orsu Local Government Area in Imo. 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 AWD plate number from?

Imo. The code identifies the local government area — Orsu — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole AWD 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.