Plate code

LAR Plate Number Meaning: Yewa South, Ogun

The LAR plate number is registered in Yewa South Local Government Area, Ogun. 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 LAR code — Yewa South, Ogun
A plate issued in Yewa South carries the LAR code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Yewa South, once listed as Egbado South, uses LAR from its seat at Ilaro. The 2006 census put 168,850 residents on 629 km², about 268 for every square kilometre. The letters follow the vehicle rather than the driver and survive every change of hands.

LAR Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the LAR 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
LAR-628AA PEUGEOT 406 GREEN
LAR-956AA Toyota Corolla Blue
LAR-111AA LANTRA GREEN
LAR-999AA TOYOTA COROLLA CUSTOM
LAR-987AA Opel VECTRA Blue

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 LAR

Local Government Area
Yewa South
State
Ogun
Headquarters
Ilaro
Population
168,850 (2006)
Area
629 km²
Also spelled
Egbado South

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the LAR Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so LAR places the paperwork in Yewa 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 LAR plate away from Ogun 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 LAR plate number

What does the LAR plate number mean?

LAR is the registration code of Yewa South Local Government Area in Ogun. 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 LAR plate number from?

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

Have a whole LAR 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.