CAC To Register Companies In 3 Hours

Company
registration
just got
easier as
the
Corporate
Affairs
Commission
(CAC) has
said it would deploy new software in the first
quarter of 2014 to further reduce the registration
period of companies to a maximum of three hours.
Speaking while receiving a Quality Management
System (QMS) certificate from the Standards
Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on behalf of the CAC
in Abuja, the Registrar-General of the commission,
Alhaji Bello Mahmud said the move was part of
efforts by the commission to maintain its current
status as one of the best company registries in the
world as shown by the ISO certification.
“We have been able to reduce the period of
registration of companies from five days to 24 hours
since the adoption of the International Standard
Organisation (ISO) standards. We intend to reduce it
further to a maximum of three hours by the time we
deploy new registration software in the first quarter
of 2014,” he said.
The registrar-general noted that Quality
Management System had been a veritable tool for
the significant improvement recorded by the
commission in its service delivery.
While presenting the QMS certificate to CAC on
behalf of the International Standard Organisation
(ISO) the Director-General, SON, Mr. Joseph
Odumodu, said it was in recognition of the
commission’s pursuit of excellence in its service
delivery to Nigerians.
He said the QMS adopted by the CAC had helped the
commission to understand customer needs and
meet their expectations as well as improve on its
set processes and documentation, among others.
According to him, CAC is the first Federal
Government agency among four others to obtain
certification on QMS from SON.
Other agencies, according to the SON boss are the
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the
Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) and SON.
“This remarkable achievement can be ascribed to
the desire of the commission to improve on its
processes, documentation and on-time delivery of
services to its customers.
“By this impressive feat, CAC has formally
announced themselves among the league of the
lofty class of Quality Management System certified
organisations in Nigeria,” he said.
Odumodu therefore urged public and private
organisations in the country to work hard to satisfy
their customers’ needs if they wished to be relevant
in a highly competitive environment.