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Business Verification

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Verify a Nigerian business by its CAC RC number before onboarding. The endpoint queries the Corporate Affairs Commission registry and returns the registered business name, address, registration date, and current status.

🏛️ CAC registry lookup✅ Active status check📋 Registration details

What It Returns​

Pass a valid RC number as a path parameter — the response contains the following fields from the CAC registry:

Response — data object

name
string
Registered business name as recorded by the CAC.
address
string
Registered business address.
registrationDate
ISO 8601 date
The date the business was formally registered with the CAC.
status
string
Current CAC registration status — e.g. "active". Always verify this field before approving an onboarding.
Bearer token required

This endpoint requires a valid Bearer token. Obtain one from the Access Token endpoint and pass it as Authorization: Bearer <token>.

Rate limiting

This endpoint is rate-limited. The response headers include X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset so you can track usage and back off before hitting the ceiling.

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