The Corporate Affairs Commission ( Cac )

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On 2nd February, 2015, the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) launched a 24-hour online enrollment portal to be able to track its business registrations to its customers. With the online enrollment platform, you have the ability to register your business online and also have access to other services offered by the CAC. This is in agreement with the CAC 's call for Nigerian entrepreneurs to register their businesses. That was a follow up call to Corporate Affairs Commission 's strategy for a new business enrollment online portal. As reported by Dr. Olusegun Aganga, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, "Nigerians will no longer incur additional expenses and won 't go to the CAC 's office to register their business names". He also said that it was a unified movement with the Federal Ministry of Communications Technology under Government Service Portal program. Aganga made it clear that the capacity of online portal has sufficient space to house the payment platforms such as inter- switch, e-transaction, and visa card. Others include Verve card, American express and other different types of electronic payments available in Nigeria. He explains that anyone that needs to register its business would now do such easily in piece of the mind without going to CAC Office. The Minister listed to the public the easy access to the payment of the commission 's services; slash in cost for the accredited agents and regular people as the same number of advantages of the new online gateway. Aganga said that the Federal Government was more dedicated on deploying more positive measures towards a cordial business environment setting in Nigeria Before, Dr. Omobola Johnson, the Minister of Communications Technology, said that online regis... ... middle of paper ... ...r CAC can easily be obtained – such as CAC 1 (Availability of check and reservation of names, CAC 1A (Change of names availability check and reservation of name). To see the full list of forms available for those that needs to register for business name. Click here to visit the official website of CAC http://new.cac.gov.ng/home/forms/ Summary of Fees and Forms: For you to register your business with CAC, you have to pay some fees for the services you’re requesting, such as registration of private company with share capital of N1million or less for N10,000 , reservation of names for N500 etc To access the full list of fees, click on this link to visit the company’s website. Bear in mind that the prices can change at any time without your consent. So, you need to visit that section often for the most current update http://new.cac.gov.ng/home/summary-of-fees-and-forms/

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