CAC urges businesses to leverage online platform for registration

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has urged business owners to take advantage of its online platform for business registration.

“With our new software, our customers do not have to physically visit the commission any longer as they could apply for our services online any time and day of the week,” Garba Abubakar, special assistant to the registrar of the commission, said at a sensitisation workshop for lawyers held in Lagos.

The event provided a platform for the CAC to sensitise lawyers on the recent development in company registration in Nigeria.

Abubakar said it was important for lawyers to examine and gain understanding of some of the activities of the commission with a view to offering suggestions, to promote efficiency and prompt service delivery to primary customers.

“The commission as a regulator is poised to promoting business transactions in Nigeria through prompt registration of companies, processing of post-incorporation filings and providing other assistance as required under the companies and allied Matters Act, Cap. C20, LFN, 2004,” Abubakar said.

Abubakar noted that the sensitisation  workshop was important to enable the commission showcase its services, stressing that the CAC had embarked on reforms to promote doing business with ease in Nigeria so as to meet the requirements of a world class company registry.

The CAC is responsible for business registration in Nigeria. Despite challenges, the commission has made businesses registration easy, when compared with the torrid experiences of the past.

Moyosore Onigbanjo, presented a live demonstration of CAC’s online portal and gave an explanation of registering a company online.

Adebisi Nofiu