Plate code

SGD Plate Number Meaning: Owan-West, Edo

The SGD plate number is registered in Owan-West Local Government Area, Edo. 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 SGD code — Owan-West, Edo
A plate issued in Owan-West carries the SGD code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

SGD is the Owan West code. Around 97,388 people were recorded there in 2006 over 732 km², roughly 133 to the square kilometre. A code is not a series or a year of issue: it is a district, and it keeps naming that district for the life of the registration.

SGD Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the SGD 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
SGD-128AA TOYOTA RAV 4 TOYOTA RAV4 JEEP CUSTOM
SGD-174AA TOYOTA CAMRY WHITE
SGD-305AA TOYOTA CAMRY GREEN
SGD-507AA SUNNY RED
SGD-628AA MAZDA 626 BLUE
SGD-741AA TOYOTA TOYOTA RAV 4 CUSTOM
SGD-956AA NISSAN PRIMERA 1999 CUSTOM
SGD-111AA MERCEDES-BENZ KOMPRESSOR C220 NAVY BLUE
SGD-222AA NISSAN PATHFINDER ASH
SGD-999AA MERCEDES-BENZ 190 CUSTOM
SGD-123AA V/WAGEN GOLF GREEN
SGD-987AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF DARK 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.

What SGD Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 12 records

Counted from the 12 SGD 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 SGD

Local Government Area
Owan-West
State
Edo
Headquarters
Sabongida Ora
Population
97,388 (2006)
Area
732 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 SGD Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so SGD places the paperwork in Owan-West. 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 SGD plate away from Edo 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 SGD plate number

What does the SGD plate number mean?

SGD is the registration code of Owan-West Local Government Area in Edo. 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 SGD plate number from?

Edo. The code identifies the local government area — Owan-West — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole SGD 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.