Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission has begun a sixth round of striking non-compliant companies from its register, targeting 100,000 entities it says have failed to meet statutory filing obligations, in a notice signed by management and dated July 15.
The commission said the affected companies, identified under what it labelled “Batch 6,” can be viewed on its website, www.cac.gov.ng, and gave them 90 days to file all outstanding annual returns and, where applicable, update records on persons with significant control and beneficial ownership.
CAC said the action is taken under Section 692(3) and (4) of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, which empowers the regulator to remove companies it has reasonable cause to believe are dormant or non-operational.
Evidence of compliance is to be sent to a dedicated address, struckoffcompanies@cac.gov.ng, the notice said.
“Companies that fail to comply within the stipulated timeline shall be struck off the Register without further notice,” the commission said.
The exercise extends a compliance drive that has run in phases since 2023. CAC said in February that it struck off more than 400,000 companies from the register in 2025 over inactivity and non-compliance, and a fifth batch of 100,000 companies was published in July 2025.
Restoration of a struck-off company typically requires a Federal High Court order, a route that is costly and time-consuming, according to filings guidance previously published around earlier batches.
