CAC stops manual registrations in Abuja, Kano, 4 other locations

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has stopped accepting physical submissions of new applications for registration of companies in six locations across the country.

Announcing the development yesterday in Abuja, the Registrar-General of the Commission, Mr. Bello Mahmud, said the CAC had fully transited to electronic registration in Abuja, Kano, Lagos, Kaduna, Enugu and Port Harcourt.

Mahmud said Nigerians were free to continue manual registration of companies in other offices of the commission but added that 20 locations in different parts of the country would be transited to full online registration by the end of the second quarter of 2017.

The CAC boss also said Nigerians could now search for company details on its new public search engine, making it unnecessary for manual inquiries on status of companies.

He also said the commission had removed the restriction that only accredited agents such as lawyers, chartered accountants and secretaries could register a company.

For ease of company registration, the CAC has also integrated stamp duty payment to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to the Commission’s Company Registration Portal (CRP).

“Companies processing new registrations in these locations shall directly complete the application forms and other relevant information and pay the registration fee, as well as stamp duty on the Company Registration Portal,” he said.