Records last updated: 04 April 2024
Contact person: Favour Ime
Current ongoing work
We have been supporting Nigeria with establishing a public beneficial ownership register that publishes data in line with our Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS). Our efforts are also focused on advancing data-use through data-use projects and initiatives.
Committed to one or more
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Live registerFollowing the launch of one or more beneficial ownership registers, a country is labelled as Live register.
Implemented one or more
Data on the Open Ownership map is drawn from publicly-available sources and may not be comprehensive for all countries. For countries marked in grey we do not have information. If data is incorrect, or to submit new data,, please fill in this form.
Implementation details
Federal Republic of Nigeria Persons with Significant Control Register
- Name
- Federal Republic of Nigeria Persons with Significant Control Register
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Register launched
- 2022
- Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
- 5%
- Structured data publicly available
- Yes
- Published as BODS
- Planned
- Available via API
- Yes
- Available on the OO register
- No
Nigeria EITI Register
- Name
- Nigeria EITI Register
- Scope
- Sectoral: Extractives
- Register launched
- 2019
- Structured data publicly available
- No
- Published as BODS
- No
- Available via API
- No
Commitment details
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- Nigeria has made a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency as part of accessing funds through the IMF Rapid Financing Instrument. [21 April 2020] link to commitment
- At the 2016 UK Anti-Corruption Summit, Nigeria made a commitment to beneficial ownership disclosure. [12 May 2016] link to commitment
- Nigeria has made a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency as part of the Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group. [26 July 2022] link to commitment
- Nigeria included a commitment to create a public beneficial ownership register and publish data in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard as part of its 2019-2022 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan [20 January 2020] link to commitment
- As an Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) member, Nigeria has committed to beneficial ownership transparency for the extractives sector. [25 February 2016]
