Plate code

SSU Plate Number Meaning: Atakunmosa West, Osun

The SSU plate number is registered in Atakunmosa West Local Government Area, Osun. 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 SSU code — Atakunmosa West, Osun
A plate issued in Atakunmosa West carries the SSU code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Atakunmosa West — listed as Atakumosa in older sources — uses SSU, from its seat at Osu. The 2006 census recorded 68,643 residents across 577 km², about 119 for every square kilometre. Renaming a district does not renumber its plates.

SSU Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the SSU 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
SSU-128AA MITSUBISHI L300

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 SSU

Local Government Area
Atakunmosa West
State
Osun
Headquarters
Osu
Population
68,643 (2006)
Area
577 km²
Also spelled
Atakumosa

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

What the SSU Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so SSU places the paperwork in Atakunmosa 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 SSU plate away from Osun 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 SSU plate number

What does the SSU plate number mean?

SSU is the registration code of Atakunmosa West Local Government Area in Osun. 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 SSU plate number from?

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

Codes Next to SSU in Osun

Codes either side of SSU in the Osun directory.

All Osun plate number codes

Have a whole SSU 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.