Plate code

YGJ Plate Number Meaning: Guma, Benue

The YGJ plate number is registered in Guma Local Government Area, Benue. 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 YGJ code — Guma, Benue
A plate issued in Guma carries the YGJ code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

YGJ belongs to Guma, administered from Gbajimba. The 2006 census recorded 191,599 residents over 2,882 km², about 66 to the square kilometre. A code identifies the district where a vehicle entered the register, and it keeps doing so for the life of that registration.

YGJ Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the YGJ 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
YGJ-128AA VOLKS WAGEN GOLF WHITE
YGJ-174AA TOYOTA COROLLA GOLD
YGJ-236AA HONDA CRV BLACK
YGJ-305AA TOYOTA YARIS DARK
YGJ-419AA Carina II Red
YGJ-507AA LEXUS RX300 WHITE
YGJ-853AA MERCEDES-BENZ C180 CUSTOM
YGJ-111AA PEUGEOT 504 WHITE
YGJ-999AA PEUGEOT 406 CUSTOM
YGJ-123AA LAND CRUISER JEEP DARK

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 YGJ Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 3 of 9 records
White Most common colour — 3 of 8 records

Counted from the 10 YGJ 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 YGJ

Local Government Area
Guma
State
Benue
Headquarters
Gbajimba
Population
191,599 (2006)
Area
2,882 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 YGJ Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so YGJ places the paperwork in Guma. 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 YGJ plate away from Benue 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 YGJ plate number

What does the YGJ plate number mean?

YGJ is the registration code of Guma Local Government Area in Benue. 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 YGJ plate number from?

Benue. The code identifies the local government area — Guma — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to YGJ in Benue

Codes either side of YGJ in the Benue directory.

All Benue plate number codes

Have a whole YGJ 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.