Plate code

UBJ Plate Number Meaning: Esan-South-East, Edo

The UBJ plate number is registered in Esan-South-East 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 UBJ code — Esan-South-East, Edo
A plate issued in Esan-South-East carries the UBJ code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Esan South-East, seat at Ubiaja, issues UBJ across a district of 1,306 km². Codes are set at first registration and are not recycled between local government areas, which is what makes a three-letter directory possible and reliable in the first place.

UBJ Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the UBJ 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
UBJ-128AA GRAND CHEROKEE 2004 ASH
UBJ-236AA NISSAN XTERRA JEEP 1999 CUSTOM
UBJ-419AA TOYOTA CARINA II DARK TAN
UBJ-507AA NISSAN PATHFINDER ASH
UBJ-628AA MERCEDES-BENZ C180 GREEN
UBJ-741AA MERCEDES-BENZ 200 BLACK
UBJ-853AA AUDI 80 ASH
UBJ-956AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF BLUE
UBJ-222AA AUDI 80 DARK ASH
UBJ-999AA MERCEDES-BENZ C-CLASS SILVER
UBJ-123AA TOYOTA HIECE 1992 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 UBJ Plates Look Like

11 Plates checked
Mercedes-Benz Most common make — 3 of 10 records
Ash Most common colour — 3 of 10 records

Counted from the 11 UBJ 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 UBJ

Local Government Area
Esan-South-East
State
Edo
Headquarters
Ubiaja
Area
1,306 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 UBJ Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so UBJ places the paperwork in Esan-South-East. 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 UBJ 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 UBJ plate number

What does the UBJ plate number mean?

UBJ is the registration code of Esan-South-East 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 UBJ plate number from?

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

Have a whole UBJ 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.