How to Check if a Company Is Registered in Niger

Before you pay a supplier, sign with a partner, or invest in a Nigerien business, there is one check worth two minutes of your time: confirming the company is actually registered. A real company in Niger is recorded in the RCCM (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier) — the commercial register that operates under OHADA, the regional business-law framework shared across Francophone West and Central Africa. You can verify a company for free, by name or by RCCM number. This guide shows you how, what a genuine record looks like, and how to spot a business that isn't what it claims to be.

Who keeps Niger's company register?

Niger's official company registrar is the RCCM (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier), kept locally by the court greffe (clerk's office) in Niamey and other commercial jurisdictions. Niger is a member state of OHADA (the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa), so its companies are governed by the same Uniform Acts as Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and a dozen other states. Each national RCCM files into the CCJA Fichier Régional du RCCM — the OHADA federated regional register maintained by the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration. Every commercial company and registered sole trader operating legally in Niger is recorded there, and the core facts of its registration are public.

How to search the Niger company register

1. Get the company's exact registered name or its RCCM number (the certificate, contract, or invoice usually shows one).
2. Search it on Fylings — type the name in the box and we check Niger's RCCM via the OHADA federated register, so you're not limited to a stale cache.
3. Open the matching result to see the registered name, legal form, registration date, and the source and date the record was checked.
4. No match under that exact name? Try a shorter form, or check the spelling — French accents and abbreviations matter. Still nothing — that's a red flag worth pausing on.

What a Niger company record shows

Niger's public RCCM data is deliberately lean — it confirms a company exists, what legal form it takes, and when it registered, rather than dumping its full file. On Fylings, a Niger record shows:

• The registered (legal) name — the exact name on the RCCM
• The RCCM number — the unique commercial-register identifier
• The legal form — e.g. SA, SARL, SAS, SNC, GIE, or Entreprise Individuelle
• The registration date — when the company was entered on the register
• The source and date — every record is attributed to the OHADA RCCM, with the date it was checked

Reading a Niger legal form

Because Niger follows OHADA law, its companies use a standard set of legal forms — and the form tells you a lot about the business at a glance:

• SA — Société Anonyme, a public limited company with share capital, used for larger firms
• SARL — Société à Responsabilité Limitée, the common private limited company
• SAS — Société par Actions Simplifiée, a flexible joint-stock company
• SNC — Société en Nom Collectif, a general partnership where partners are jointly liable
• GIE — Groupement d'Intérêt Économique, an economic-interest grouping that pools members' activity
• Entreprise Individuelle — a sole trader, with no separate legal personality from the owner

How to spot a company that isn't registered

Most problems aren't elaborate forgeries — they're businesses that simply never registered, or that use a name close to a real one. Watch for:

• No match on the register under the exact name they gave you — the single biggest signal.
• An RCCM number that doesn't resolve to the name on the document.
• A name that is suspiciously similar to a well-known company (e.g. an extra word or initial).
• Pressure to pay before you've had a chance to verify anything.