Plate code

RGM Plate Number Meaning: Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni, Rivers

The RGM plate number is registered in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area, Rivers. 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 RGM code — Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni, Rivers
A plate issued in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni carries the RGM code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

RGM is the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni code, administered from Omoku. The 2006 census counted 258,700 residents across 1,621 km², near 160 for every square kilometre. The code stays on the plate for the life of the registration it was issued with. A sale changes the owner, never the district on the plate.

RGM Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the RGM 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
RGM-174AA Ford Escape 4x4 Black
RGM-305AA Toyota Prado Black
RGM-419AA Toyota Camry Custom
RGM-628AA NISSAN INFINITI JEEP CUSTOM
RGM-741AA NISSAN PATHFINDER CUSTOM
RGM-853AA PEUGEOT 406 SALOON CUSTOM
RGM-956AA TOYOTA 4 RUNNER WHITE
RGM-111AA HYUNDAI 1 X35 SILVER
RGM-222AA HYUNDAI Hyundai Accent Grey
RGM-999AA TOYOTA RAV 4 CUSTOM
RGM-987AA LEXUS LX 470 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 RGM Plates Look Like

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

Counted from the 11 RGM 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 RGM

Local Government Area
Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni
State
Rivers
Headquarters
Omoku
Population
258,700 (2006)
Area
1,621 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 RGM Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so RGM places the paperwork in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni. 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 RGM plate away from Rivers 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 RGM plate number

What does the RGM plate number mean?

RGM is the registration code of Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area in Rivers. 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 RGM plate number from?

Rivers. The code identifies the local government area — Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole RGM 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.