In Nigeria the statutory company record sits with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), yet Africa's largest economy runs heavily on informal traders and micro-businesses that global databases rarely capture. AtlasForgeX tracks the CAC alongside a layer of Nigerian statistics offices, chambers and directories — this page is a live view of that coverage and the buying signals Atlas detects.
These are real sources AtlasForgeX has discovered and verified as live for this market — the registers and public datasets it reads to surface companies the stored databases miss.
Tier A = primary official register / gazette · Tier B = statistics offices & major directories · Tier C = supplementary. Source list maintained live by AtlasForgeX. See the global register directory.
The legal source of truth is the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), which administers incorporation under the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 and runs a public verification portal at search.cac.gov.ng. Entities carry different prefixes depending on type — an RC number for limited companies, a BN number for business names (sole traders and partnerships) and an IT number for incorporated trustees. Following the CAC's digitisation drive, the register now holds several million entities, with new registrations concentrated in Lagos, Abuja and the commercial hubs of the south.
Trade and retail, fintech and financial services, oil and gas, agriculture and telecoms dominate the active base. The reason aggregators such as Apollo and ZoomInfo under-cover Nigeria is structural: an enormous share of commerce is informal, micro-enterprises often transact through WhatsApp, Instagram and marketplaces rather than a standalone website, and many newly incorporated firms have no English-language web footprint at all. A trader in Kano or a services firm in Port Harcourt may hold a valid CAC record while remaining entirely absent from a US-built database, so Atlas reads the registry and the open Nigerian web directly to surface them.
Streaming from AtlasForgeX's own data collection — verified sources, ingestion volume and detected buying signals for Nigeria, updated automatically.
AtlasForgeX tracks 54 public buying signals and collects across registries, the open web, hiring and news to surface Nigeria companies entering a buying window. How AtlasForgeX finds hidden companies →
Sources above are the live, verified set AtlasForgeX tracks for Nigeria (national registers, statistics offices, public business directories). Live coverage and signal figures come from AtlasForgeX's own data collection, shown as aggregates only. Spotted an error? atlasforgex@proton.me.
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