News Headline -The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has launched a new artificial intelligence–powered registration portal designed to cut waiting times and ease bottlenecks in company registration services. Speaking at the CAC stakeholders Forum at FABS event centre in Kano on Monday, Registrar-General of the Commission, Hussain, Ishaq Magaji, SAN said the platform, called the Intelligent Company Registration Portal (iCRP) can complete business name registration in less than 10 minutes and limited liability company registration in under 30 minutes. Launched on June 30, 2025, the iCRP portal currently handles name reservation and business name registration under Phase One of its rollout. “No other country currently offers business registration in under 10 minutes,” the Registrar-General said, adding that CAC will showcase the innovation at the Corporate Registers Forum in Tunisia next month. While acknowledging service backlogs, he assured that further AI-driven solutions would boost compliance checks and registry approvals.