Plate code

YRE Plate Number Meaning: Oluyole, Oyo

The YRE plate number is registered in Oluyole 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 YRE code — Oluyole, Oyo
A plate issued in Oluyole carries the YRE code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Oluyole, seat at Idi-Ayunre, uses YRE. About 202,725 people were recorded there in 2006 over 629 km², some 322 for every square kilometre. The code is fixed at registration and follows the vehicle wherever it is driven afterwards. They are read left to right, ahead of the digits.

YRE Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the YRE 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
YRE-128AA Golf Lift Back Blue
YRE-305AA Toyota Carina E Grey
YRE-419AA Toyota Camry Green
YRE-507AA M/Benz 230 S/Car Yellow
YRE-741AA Nissan Almera Ash
YRE-853AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF BLACK
YRE-111AA Nissan Primera S/Car Custom
YRE-222AA Peug 406 s/Car Blue
YRE-123AA Toyota Corola S/Car White

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 YRE

Local Government Area
Oluyole
State
Oyo
Headquarters
Idi-Ayunre
Population
202,725 (2006)
Area
629 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 YRE Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so YRE places the paperwork in Oluyole. 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 YRE 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 YRE plate number

What does the YRE plate number mean?

YRE is the registration code of Oluyole 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 YRE plate number from?

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

Have a whole YRE 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.