How To Register Business Name For Free In Nigeria
You can now register your business name with the online portal of the corporate affairs commission cac.
How to register business name for free in nigeria. Registration steps for business names. Complete pre registration form cac bno1 online using company registration portal. Steps 1 3 can be completed on the company registration portal crp. According to the cac 6 606 business names in each of the 34 states will be registered for free. How to register your business name free simply contact an aggregator or the focal person in your state to complete your business name registration.
Check for availability of the business name click here. The process of registering a business in nigeria through the corporate affairs commission cac usually take days but the commission hopes to reduce the time spent to register a company in nigeria to 24 hours by december 2018. In abuja there would be 7 906 free registrations 9 084 in lagos and 8 406 free business names from kano. Read more about name reservationand reserve a new name. A form of business formalization support of the msme survival fund.
There are two major ways through which you can register your business name in nigeria. Pay filing fee check the fees for our services here. Engage the services of a lawyer company secretary chartered accountant. The free 250 000 business name registration component of the msme survival fund has begun. The federal government of nigeria and the corporate affairs commission cac is organizing the fg cac free business names registration for 250 000 micro small and medium enterprises in nigeria.
In a statement published by the pdo. The steering committee of the msme survival fund and the guaranteed off take scheme headed by the hon minister of state federal ministry of industry trade and investment fmiti ambassador mariam yalwaji katagum wishes to inform the general public that the. Share on pinterest share on facebook share on twitter. As part of the msmes survival fund the federal government of nigeria will also offer cac free business name registration for 250 000 businesses in nigeria. Nigerians who meet the criteria should apply at http survivalfund ng.
According to him one of the apc led government is to enable smes to register their business names free with the corporate affairs commission cac. It is tagged cac fg business name registration. Procedure to register your business online connection to the company registration portal crp services cac gov ng. A few weeks ago vice president yemi osinbajo made it known that there are plans to boost small businesses in nigeria.