DFB Plate Number Meaning: Ideato-South, Imo
The DFB plate number is registered in Ideato-South 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.
Ideato South, run from Dikenafai, uses DFB. The 2006 census put 159,879 residents on 88 km², about 1,817 for every square kilometre. A plate lookup returns the district and its state — the register does not publish owners, and no part of the plate encodes one.
DFB Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the DFB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFB-128AA | Great Wall Florid Car | Black | |
| DFB-174AA | Honda Accord | Custom | |
| DFB-236AA | Nissan Infinity Saloon Car | Custom | |
| DFB-305AA | Quest | Custom | |
| DFB-419AA | Golf | Custom | |
| DFB-507AA | Mazda Car | Custom | |
| DFB-628AA | Honda Accord | Custom | |
| DFB-111AA | Nissan Pathfinder Jeep | Custom | |
| DFB-222AA | Mits Pajero Jeep | Ash | |
| DFB-123AA | Peugeot 607 S/Car | 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 DFB Plates Look Like
Counted from the 10 DFB 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 DFB
- Local Government Area
- Ideato-South
- State
- Imo
- Headquarters
- Dikenafai
- Population
- 159,879 (2006)
- Area
- 88 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 DFB Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so DFB places the paperwork in Ideato-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 DFB 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 DFB plate number
What does the DFB plate number mean?
DFB is the registration code of Ideato-South 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 DFB plate number from?
Imo. The code identifies the local government area — Ideato-South — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to DFB in Imo
Codes either side of DFB in the Imo directory.
Have a whole DFB 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.