Plate code

GGJ Plate Number Meaning: Ogoja, Cross River

The GGJ plate number is registered in Ogoja Local Government Area, Cross River. 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 GGJ code — Ogoja, Cross River
A plate issued in Ogoja carries the GGJ code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Ogoja, run from Ogoja town, registers vehicles as GGJ. The 2006 census put 171,901 people on 972 km², some 177 to the square kilometre. A code is not a batch number: it names a district, and it keeps naming that district for the life of the registration.

GGJ Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the GGJ 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
GGJ-128AA NISSAN PRIMERA ASH
GGJ-174AA GEELY MK MK ASH
GGJ-236AA Nissan Almera Custom
GGJ-305AA M/Benz 230 S/Car Black
GGJ-419AA Toyota Corolla Custom
GGJ-507AA Avensis Custom
GGJ-111AA Honda Accord Saloon Custom
GGJ-222AA Toyota Hilux Custom
GGJ-123AA Peugeot 505 Custom
GGJ-987AA 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 GGJ Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 10 records

Counted from the 10 GGJ 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 GGJ

Local Government Area
Ogoja
State
Cross River
Headquarters
Ogoja
Population
171,901 (2006)
Area
972 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 GGJ Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so GGJ places the paperwork in Ogoja. 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 GGJ plate away from Cross River 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 GGJ plate number

What does the GGJ plate number mean?

GGJ is the registration code of Ogoja Local Government Area in Cross River. 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 GGJ plate number from?

Cross River. The code identifies the local government area — Ogoja — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to GGJ in Cross River

Codes either side of GGJ in the Cross River directory.

All Cross River plate number codes

Have a whole GGJ 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.