Plate code

JMU Plate Number Meaning: Ijumu, Kogi

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

Ijumu uses JMU. The 2006 census put 119,929 residents on 1,306 km², about 92 for every square kilometre. Reading a Nigerian plate begins with the three letters, and they place the registration rather than describe the car. That is the whole of what three letters can honestly tell you.

JMU Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the JMU 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
JMU-128AA TOYOTA CARINA E CARINA E BLUE
JMU-174AA HONDA ODDYSSEY ODDYSSEY N/A
JMU-236AA Volkswagen Sharon Blue
JMU-305AA Nissan Guest Ash
JMU-419AA Peugeot 406 Red
JMU-628AA MAZDA 323 DARK BLUE
JMU-741AA VOLKSWAGEN SHARON CUSTOM
JMU-853AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER BLUE
JMU-222AA TOYOTA CARINA E NIL
JMU-123AA Nissan Almera 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.

What JMU Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 3 of 10 records
Blue Most common colour — 3 of 7 records

Counted from the 10 JMU 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 JMU

Local Government Area
Ijumu
State
Kogi
Headquarters
Iyara
Population
119,929 (2006)
Area
1,306 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 JMU Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so JMU places the paperwork in Ijumu. 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 JMU plate away from Kogi 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 JMU plate number

What does the JMU plate number mean?

JMU is the registration code of Ijumu Local Government Area in Kogi. 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 JMU plate number from?

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

Codes Next to JMU in Kogi

Codes either side of JMU in the Kogi directory.

All Kogi plate number codes

Have a whole JMU 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.