NIN soon to become requirement for processing registration applications – CAC
Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) says applicants will soon be required to present only their NIN enrolment numbers and not signatures to process registration applications, as part of partnership agreement the agency is planning to reach with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
According to CAC, the partnership with the NIMC is part of its reform initiatives for effective service delivery.
Registrar-General of CAC, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by the commission’s Head of Media Unit, Mr Rasheed Mahe, also said the proposed partnership with NIMC has reached an advanced stage.
According to Abubakar, when implemented, the new NIN requirement will replace the old signatories required for processing of applications as was obtainable in other jurisdictions.
The registrar-general spoke at the just concluded management retreat held in Kano with the theme: “Corporate Affairs Commission: Consolidating on the Gains of Digital Transformation”.
He said that the commission was blessed with highly talented, committed and skilled personnel who worked outside office hours to approve applications from customers, informed that training and re-training of its members of staff in all sectors of its operations would continue to receive priority attention in a bid to achieve its mandates.
The registrar-general said that the commission would train 700 members of staff by the end of the year as against the 583 trained in 2021, noting that more staff of the Commission would be empowered with working tools, adding that some of the tools would be provided by the World Bank.
He said that the work tools would enable them grant registration approvals even outside of working hours, just as he enjoined staff to re-dedicate themselves to duty, especially those handling approvals to exercise caution in order to guard against avoidable errors.
Speaking on the new insolvency framework in pursuant to CAMA, 2020, the CAC boss enjoined legal practitioners to explore the enormous potential provided by the new legal arrangement.
Also remarking, Director, Customer Service, Mrs Ifeoma Isaac lauded the reform initiatives being championed by the registrar-general.
The statement quoted Chairman of the Retreat Planning Committee, Duke Ukaga, as making a presentation on “Update on the Implementation of the 2021 Management Retreat’’.
The two-day event featured presentations of diverse topics.
These include; the Current Innovations on the Companies Registration Portal (CRP), Ease of Doing Business: The Rwandan Experience, the Revised Operations Checklist and an Introduction to the Insolvency Regulations, among others.
A 31-point Communiqué was issued at the end of the two-day retreat.
