Plate code

GBJ Plate Number Meaning: Warri South West, Delta

The GBJ plate number is registered in Warri South West 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 GBJ code — Warri South West, Delta
A plate issued in Warri South West carries the GBJ code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Warri South West registers vehicles as GBJ. The district covers 1,279 km². Nigerian codes belong to local government areas, not to model years or production batches, so an old plate decodes exactly like a new one and a lookup gives the same answer either way.

GBJ Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the GBJ 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
GBJ-128AA V/W Passat Car Custom
GBJ-174AA Toyota Avensis Custom
GBJ-305AA V.W Golf 3 S/C Custom
GBJ-419AA Toyota Camry Custom
GBJ-507AA Bmw 318 Custom
GBJ-628AA Toyota Highlander Custom
GBJ-741AA Nissan Primera Custom
GBJ-853AA Mit. Space Wagon Custom
GBJ-111AA Honda Accord Custom
GBJ-222AA Toyota Tundra Custom
GBJ-999AA ml320 Custom
GBJ-123AA Honda Accord 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 GBJ Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 11 records

Counted from the 13 GBJ 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 GBJ

Local Government Area
Warri South West
State
Delta
Headquarters
Ogbe-Ijoh
Area
1,279 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 GBJ Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so GBJ places the paperwork in Warri South West. 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 GBJ 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 GBJ plate number

What does the GBJ plate number mean?

GBJ is the registration code of Warri South West 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 GBJ plate number from?

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

Have a whole GBJ 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.