Your gateway for every business service in Sierra Leone
NIB offers one Digital Service Centre for all business services.
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- NIB services you can use online
- QR
- on every certificate, checkable by anyone
- 24/7
- file and track from anywhere
Four steps to any NIB service.
Whether you are registering a business, filing a change, applying for an investment certificate or ordering a document, the steps are the same. Each follows the paper process you already know, and you can see where your application stands at every stage.
Get startedCreate your account
Sign up with your National Identification Number, or your passport number if you are a foreign national.
Choose your service
Pick the service you need. A new business starts by reserving its name, which is held for you for 6 days once approved.
File and pay
Complete the service's form, upload your documents and settle the fee. An NIB officer then reviews it.
Track and collect
Follow each stage in your account. Certificates, letters and acknowledgements are issued there, each with a QR code anyone can check.
Everything NIB offers online, in one place.
From reserving a name to investment certificates and official documents: 66 services, each with the form, fee and officer review it would have at an NIB office.
Registration 7
Register a company, a foreign company, a sole proprietorship or a partnership.
- Foreign Company Registration
- Incorporation of a Company Limited by Guarantee
- Incorporation of a Private Limited Company
- Incorporation of a Public Limited Company
- and 3 more
Post-Registration 53
Keep your business up to date: annual returns, changes of directors, address, name or capital, charges and winding up.
- Additional Certificates for Branches
- Alteration of Memo & Articles
- Annual Financial Statements
- Annual Return: Company Having a Share Capital
- and 49 more
Documentary Services 5
Official documents about a business: certified copies, good standing, status letters and search reports, each with a QR code anyone can check.
- Company Search Report (Full)
- Due Diligence Report
- Good Standing Certificate
- Status Report Letter
- and 1 more
Appeals 1
Online services from the National Investment Board.
- Appeal against a Decision of NIB
Manage your business
Keep your business's members, directors and documents together in one file, and invite the people who work on it with you.
A registered business is a business people can trust.
Registration puts your business on the national record, which is what banks, suppliers, investors and the courts look for before they deal with you.
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Open a business bank account
Banks require your certificate of registration. -
Bid for contracts and tenders
Public and private buyers deal with registered entities. -
Protect your business name
Your approved name is recorded against your business. -
Raise finance and grow
Lenders and investors start from the official record.
Part of the National Investment Board
Business registration is one of the Board’s services. For investment promotion, incentives, sectors and news, explore the Board’s pages.
Latest from the Board.
Ready to get started?
Create your account to register a business, keep it up to date, apply for an investment certificate or order an official document. Our officers review every application, and you will always know where yours stands.
What you will need
- Your national ID number, or your passport number if you are a foreign national
- A mobile number: you sign in with it (an email address is optional)
- For a new business, a name to propose. Reserving it is the first step of every registration