GSH Plate Number Meaning: Bade, Yobe
The GSH plate number is registered in Bade Local Government Area, Yobe. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
Bade, administered from Gashua, uses GSH. About 139,782 people lived across its 772 km² in 2006, some 181 to the square kilometre. The code is issued once, with the papers, and read back later exactly as it was given. A sale changes the owner, never the district on the plate.
GSH Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the GSH 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSH-128AA | TOYOTA TUNDRA /2002 | WHITE | |
| GSH-174AA | TOYOTA HIGHLANDER JEEP | RED | |
| GSH-236AA | HONDA CIVIC | NIL | |
| GSH-419AA | TOYOTA C0ROLLA | BLUE | |
| GSH-507AA | TOYOTA COROLLA | BLUE | |
| GSH-111AA | TOYOTA CARINA E CARINA E | DARK GREEN | |
| GSH-222AA | HONDA STEAM | ASH |
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.
The District Behind GSH
- Local Government Area
- Bade
- State
- Yobe
- Headquarters
- Gashua
- Population
- 139,782 (2006)
- Area
- 772 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 GSH Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so GSH places the paperwork in Bade. 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 GSH plate away from Yobe 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 GSH plate number
What does the GSH plate number mean?
GSH is the registration code of Bade Local Government Area in Yobe. 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 GSH plate number from?
Yobe. The code identifies the local government area — Bade — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to GSH in Yobe
Codes either side of GSH in the Yobe directory.
Have a whole GSH 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.