Identity Verification

CAC Company Info

Retrieve company, business-name and incorporated-trustee information from the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission register.

POST/v1/companies/search

Authentication

Send a live key using the Bearer scheme. CAC Company Info requires thecac:search scope.

Header

Authorization: Bearer nck_live_...

Request body

Field	Type	Required	Meaning
search_term	string	Yes	Name, RC number or availability code.
search_type	enum	No	ALL, RC_NUMBER, AV_CODE or APPROVED_NAME.
limit	integer	No	Page size from 1 to 100; default 25.
offset	integer	No	Zero-based pagination offset.

Response behavior

Records use snake_case, UTC timestamps and real null values.
cached identifies responses served from the short-lived cache.
pagination describes the complete normalized result before slicing.
A valid lookup with no matches returns HTTP 200 and an empty data array.

Machine-readable source: download the OpenAPI 3.1.0 document.

CAC Company Info

curl --request POST 'https://api.nairacheck.com/v1/companies/search' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $NAIRACHECK_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "search_type": "ALL",
    "search_term": "zenith",
    "limit": 25,
    "offset": 0
  }'

200 response

{
  "request_id": "req_9f4c2b7a8d1e4f60",
  "search_type": "ALL",
  "search_term": "zenith",
  "cached": false,
  "pagination": {
    "total": 48,
    "limit": 25,
    "offset": 0,
    "has_more": true
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "approved_name": "ZENITH BANK PLC",
      "rc_number": "150224",
      "entity_type": "COMPANY",
      "status": "ACTIVE"
    }
  ]
}