Records last updated: 04 April 2024
Contact person: Favour Ime
Current ongoing work
Open Ownership has been supporting Nigeria with publishing its beneficial ownership data in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard. Our efforts are also focused on advancing standardisation of data use among extractive regulators in Nigeria.
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
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Implementation details
Federal Republic of Nigeria Persons with Significant Control Register
- Nom
- 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
- Oui
- Published as BODS
- Planned
- Available via API
- Oui
- Available on the OO register
- Non
Nigeria EITI Register
- Nom
- Nigeria EITI Register
- Scope
- Sectoral: Extractives
- Register launched
- 2019
- Structured data publicly available
- Non
- Published as BODS
- Non
- Available via API
- Non
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]
