Plate code

SHK Plate Number Meaning: Saki-West, Oyo

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

Saki West, seat at Saki, registers vehicles as SHK. The 2006 census put 278,002 residents on 2,014 km², about 138 for every square kilometre. The code names a local government area and says nothing about the make or age of a car.

SHK Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the SHK 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
SHK-128AA V/Wagen Golf Ash
SHK-174AA Nissan Almera S/C Black
SHK-236AA 230 E White
SHK-305AA Volks Wagen Golf Custom
SHK-419AA m/Benz 200 s/Car White
SHK-507AA 190 White
SHK-853AA OPEL ASTRA ASTRA YELLOW
SHK-956AA OPEL SIGNUM SILVER
SHK-111AA Toyota Camry S/Car Ash
SHK-222AA V/Wagen Golf S/Car Green
SHK-123AA Nissan Micra 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 SHK Plates Look Like

11 Plates checked
Volkswagen Most common make — 3 of 9 records
White Most common colour — 3 of 9 records

Counted from the 11 SHK 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 SHK

Local Government Area
Saki-West
State
Oyo
Headquarters
Saki
Population
278,002 (2006)
Area
2,014 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 SHK Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so SHK places the paperwork in Saki-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 SHK plate away from Oyo 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 SHK plate number

What does the SHK plate number mean?

SHK is the registration code of Saki-West Local Government Area in Oyo. 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 SHK plate number from?

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

Have a whole SHK 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.