Business Registration

Required Input

Input	Value
country	NG
id_type	BUSINESS_REGISTRATION
id_number	Business registration number (numbers only without the 2 letter suffix) e.g. RC 0000000 should be submitted as 0000000
business_type	The incorporation type of the business. Can be any of the following items: bn - for business name registration co - for private or public limited companies it - for incorporated trustees

Response fields

Response Field	Value Returned
Company Information.Company Type	Yes
Company Information.Country	Yes
Company Information.Address	Yes
Company Information.Registration Number	Yes
Company Information.Search Number	Yes
Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital	Yes
Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Nominal Value	No
Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Type	No
Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Number Of Shares	No
Company Information.Industry	No
Company Information.Tax Id	No
Company Information.Registration Date	Yes
Company Information.Phone	No
Company Information.Legal Name	Yes
Company Information.State	Yes
Company Information.Email	Yes
Company Information.Status	Yes
Directors.Shareholdings	Yes
Directors.Shareholding Breakdown.Type	No
Directors.Shareholding Breakdown.Number Of Shares	No
Directors.Id Number	Yes
Directors.Address	Yes
Directors.Occupation	Yes
Directors.Gender	Yes
Directors.Nationality	Yes
Directors.Date Of Birth	Yes
Directors.Name	Yes
Directors.Id Type	Yes
Directors.Phone Number	Yes
Proprietors.Id Number	Yes
Proprietors.Address	Yes
Proprietors.Occupation	Yes
Proprietors.Gender	Yes
Proprietors.Nationality	Yes
Proprietors.Date Of Birth	Yes
Proprietors.Name	Yes
Proprietors.Id Type	Yes
Proprietors.Phone Number	Yes
Beneficial Owners.Shareholdings	Yes
Beneficial Owners.Shareholding Breakdown.Type	No
Beneficial Owners.Shareholding Breakdown.Number Of Shares	No
Beneficial Owners.Address	Yes
Beneficial Owners.Gender	Yes (if applicable)
Beneficial Owners.Nationality	Yes
Beneficial Owners.Registration Number	Yes (if applicable)
Beneficial Owners.Name	Yes
Beneficial Owners.Shareholder Type	Yes
Beneficial Owners.Phone Number	Yes (if available)
Fiduciaries.Name	Yes
Fiduciaries.Fiduciary Type	Yes
Fiduciaries.Address	Yes
Fiduciaries.Registration Number	Yes (if applicable)
Fiduciaries.Status	No
Documents.Search Certificate	Yes

All fields are returned as string

ID Number Regular Expression (Regex)

To limit the probability of your user mistyping the id number, we advise that you enforce the format of the id number field in your app. You can use the regex below:

• /^0{7}$|^(?![0]+$)[A-Z0-9]{1,8}$/i

Supported Products

• Business Verification

Sample ID Numbers

To test Nigerian business registration in our Sandbox, we provide you with 4 different id numbers to mirror various scenarios you can experience with real IDs in production.

Always send co as the business_type in sandbox.

ID Number	Result	Result Code
0000000	Success with business information returned	1012
0000001	Failure, no record found	1013
0000002	Error: Invalid ID number format	2413
0000003	Database unavailable	1015