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Nigeria gives fresh condition for passport issuance, permit renewal

Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mohammed Babadede From January next year, Nigerians without the National Identity Number (NIN) are to be denied international passport (IPP).The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mohammed Babadede, dropped the hint yesterday after a meeting of the National Identity Management Harmonization Committee in Abuja. Specifically, the Federal Government, in 2014, ordered all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and security organisations involved in biometric data capture, to complete their registration and handover to the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). Yesterday’s meeting was part of efforts to actualise the harmonisation process.Consequently, Babadede explained that every citizen, seeking the document, must possess the identification number as a pre-condition His words: “We have agreed that from January 1, 2018, anybody who is going to apply for the Nigerian passpor

Corporate Affairs Commission Sacks 44,000 Companies, Registers 1.5 Million Others

No fewer than 44,000 companies operating in Nigeria have so far been de-listed from the database of the Corporate Affairs Commission(CAC) even as it registered 1.5 million other companies. According to the Registrar General of CAC, Barrister Bello Mahmud in an interview with the Economic Confidential in Abuja, the development was sequel to several breaches of the Companies and other Matters Act (CAMA) and other extant regulations of the commission. Some of the infractions, he explained, including late and outright refusal to file returns. “So far, there is an improvement and a current ratio of 45 percent. We are still checking on company records especially in terms of compliance for those who have not been filing. If we discover you are not a going concern, the law establishing us gives us the power to delist from our database.” he said. “If we discover and write you first, second and third letter without reply, we now deem it that you are not a going concern and w

CAC CLOSES MANUAL REGISTRATIONS IN FIVE STATES AND FCT

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) will no longer accept physical submission of new applications for registration in six State Offices, according to Mr. Bello Mahmud, the Registrar-General of the Commission. Speaking on Monday at a news conference in Abuja, Mahmud listed the six offices in which only online applications now apply to include Enugu, Kaduna, Kano, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja. “Customers processing new registration 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. “Customers can upload all necessary documents through the Commission’s upload interface. These services can be accessed on: www.cac.gov.ng and https://services.cac.gov.ng The Registrar-General explained that the move to go fully online is to guarantee uninterrupted availability of services and ensure efficient service delivery to custom

EXPATRIATE SERVICES IN NIGERIA

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SECRETARIAL AND LEGAL SERVICES IN NIGERIA

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