Work out what entry costs before you call anyone
Two things stop most Nigeria plans: the capital floor nobody costed, and the certificate nobody collected. These tools deal with both, in about four minutes.
Market entry cost & timeline calculator
Applies the ₦100m foreign-participation share-capital floor and the 0.75% stamp duty to your own numbers, and sketches a 90-day roadmap.
Your entry, costed
Indicative onlyEven 1% triggers the ₦100m floor
Banking, insurance, telecoms, oil & gas, capital markets, pharma
Requires an expatriate quota
How money gets in — and back out again
The eCCI is the single most consequential document in Nigerian foreign investment, and the one most often skipped for speed. Step through it.
Foreign capital leaves your account
Equity, shareholder loan or acquisition consideration. It must travel in the company's name, through formal banking channels.
It arrives at an authorised dealer bank in Nigeria
Not every bank handles capital importation competently. Choosing one with genuine eCCI experience is worth more than a marginally better FX rate.
The bank documents the inflow
Source, purpose, beneficiary company and instrument type are recorded and reported to the Central Bank.
The eCCI is issued — within 24 hours
The electronic Certificate of Capital Importation is your legal proof that this money entered Nigeria as foreign investment. Collect it on every single tranche, not just the first.
Profits, dividends and capital can be repatriated
With eCCIs in hand and taxes settled, your bank can source FX and remit dividends, loan repayments or sale proceeds through official channels at the prevailing rate.
The one-sentence version. Paperwork at money-in protects money-out. The eCCI is the difference between profits you can repatriate and profits that are stuck in Lagos.
Where people go wrong. Capital arrives before the company exists. Or it lands in a director's personal account "to save time". Or the first tranche gets an eCCI and the next four do not. Each of those is recoverable only partially, and only sometimes.
What we do here. We introduce you to banks that handle this routinely, sit on the documentation for every tranche, and keep the certificate file complete — so that when you eventually want money out, the answer is a process rather than an argument.
The calculator gave you a number. Now pressure-test it.
Thirty minutes, no charge. Bring what the tool told you and we will tell you what it missed about your specific sector.