African Data Revolution: Survey
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A list of registered companies and key data about each company. Open data from company registers may be used for many ends: e.g. enabling customers and businesses to see with whom they deal, or to see where a company has registered offices. This definition draws on the work of OpenCorporates.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | No | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | The viewing, printing or downloading of any content, graphic, form or document from the Site grants you only a limited, nonexclusive license for use solely by you for your own personal use and not for republication, distribution, assignment, sublicense, sale, preparation of derivative works or other use. No part of any content, form or document may be reproduced in any form or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, other than for your personal use (but not for resale or redistribution). See https://services.cac.gov.ng/terms |
| Up-to-date | No | It is unclear as you cannot search companies based on when they were registered. While I did my queries I did not find recently registered companies. Since we do not give the benefit of doubt, I question that data is updated. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | https://publicsearch.cac.gov.ng/ComSearch/index.php - | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Google search | |
| characteristics | Name of company, Physical company location, Unique identifier per company, Date of registration (and dissolution) | It is unclear to know how many companies are actually available on the website and each company entry must be retrieved individually. Company location however allows to extrapolate that data is provided for several regions in Nigeria. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Corporate Affairs Commission |