Nigeria Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 156,183 Nigeria companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Nigeria company register data is held by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020. Beneficial ownership has its own public platform, the Persons with Significant Control Register at bor.cac.gov.ng, live since 25 May 2023 under CAMA 2020 section 119 and the 2022 PSC Regulations. Free of charge, with personal identifiers such as national ID numbers and dates of birth redacted under data-protection rules. The exact ownership percentage that defines a person with significant control is not consistently stated across CAC's own materials, so it should be confirmed against section 119 directly rather than assumed.
Nigeria beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Nigeria
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Nigeria, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Nigeria
Nigeria remains Africa’s most populous country and, after a 2025 GDP rebasing that moved the statistical base year from 2010 to 2019, its largest economy by some measures — nominal GDP was revised up 34.4% to ₦372.8 trillion (about $243.3 billion), per Africa Check and Nairametrics reporting on the National Bureau of Statistics rebasing. The rebasing followed years of upheaval: President Tinubu ended the fuel subsidy on his first day in office in May 2023 and the central bank floated the naira weeks later, sending inflation from 22.4% to a December 2024 peak of 34.8% before easing to 15.43% by July 2026.
The Dangote Refinery, the world’s largest single-train refinery at 650,000 barrels a day nameplate capacity, reached full operational capacity in 2025 and now supplies roughly 62% of Nigeria’s petrol, overtaking traditional importers and cutting petrol imports by more than half in the first quarter of 2025, per OilPrice and EIA reporting — a structural shift in Nigeria’s energy-import dependence with knock-on effects across manufacturing, transport and foreign-exchange demand.
Nigeria’s formal business base is overwhelmingly small: a 2021 SMEDAN/National Bureau of Statistics survey counted over 39 million micro, small and medium enterprises, 99.8% of them micro, contributing 46.32% of GDP and 87.9% of employment. Estimates of Nigeria’s informal economy vary widely by methodology, from roughly 55% to as much as 65% of GDP depending on the source — a genuine measurement disagreement rather than a single settled figure. Combined foreign direct and portfolio investment reached about $14 billion in the first nine months of 2025 alone, already surpassing all of 2024, per Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
Security remains a live constraint on parts of the country: ISWAP and Boko Haram sharply escalated attacks on military bases in Borno and Yobe states from January 2025, prompting a joint US-Nigeria military operation launched in May 2026, confirmed by Foreign Policy magazine and The New Humanitarian. Even so, Nigeria’s consumer-facing digital economy has kept growing quickly: broadband penetration crossed 50% by the end of 2025, and Lagos alone now hosts more than 1,100 fintech companies that have collectively raised over $3 billion.
Nigeria company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
Share of Nigeria’s more than 39 million registered micro, small and medium enterprises, 2021 survey. MSMEs overall contribute 46.32% of GDP and 87.9% of national employment. Source: SMEDAN / National Bureau of Statistics, National MSME Survey.
Who uses Nigeria ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Nigeria counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 5 Nigeria entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
Get complete shareholder and officer records, ultimate beneficial owner resolution, and ongoing ownership monitoring for Nigeria companies — via API or a bulk data feed.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many registered Nigeria businesses does Zavia track?
Zavia holds 156,183 company records for Nigeria, of which 156,169 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Can I look up the beneficial owner of a Nigeria company?
Nigeria company register data is held by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020. Beneficial ownership has its own public platform, the Persons with Significant Control Register at bor.cac.gov.ng, live since 25 May 2023 under CAMA 2020 section 119 and the 2022 PSC Regulations. Free of charge, with personal identifiers such as national ID numbers and dates of birth redacted under data-protection rules. The exact ownership percentage that defines a person with significant control is not consistently stated across CAC's own materials, so it should be confirmed against section 119 directly rather than assumed.
Is shareholder data available for Nigeria companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 2 shareholder records for Nigeria companies, with 2,448 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Who are the registered directors of Nigeria companies, and is that searchable?
Yes. Zavia holds 46 officer and director records for Nigeria companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Is financial data available for Nigeria companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 5 digitized financial reports for Nigeria companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Is there a bulk or API option for Nigeria company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Nigeria, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Does Zavia have a deeper guide on Nigeria company ownership?
Zavia's Nigeria beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.