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Company ownership register to be ready 2023
Press Business Ghana · Sep 2021
The Ministry of Finance has expressed optimism that the Beneficial Ownership Register being compiled by the Registrar General’s Department will be made available to the public by 2023.
Liberia Enters Global Transparency Program Aimed At Disclosing Beneficial Owners Of Extractive Companies
Press Front Page Africa · Sep 2021
Like many governments across the world, the Liberia government has realized that being fully aware of the identities of people who ultimately control and benefit from companies, especially ones in the extractive industry, is crucial to fighting corruption and preventing...
Entrenching Transparency Through Disclosure Of Beneficial Ownership
Press The Independent, Nigeria · Sep 2021
As countries of the World now act to improve financial transparency, making disclosure of beneficial ownership as simple and inexpensive to promote compliance and help achieve the ultimate aim of greater corporate accountability, Garba Abubakar, Registrar General/CEO of the Corporate...
Group advocates transparency, accountability in corporate governance in Nigeria
Press Business247 News Online · Sep 2021
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has advocated for transparency, accountability in corporate governance in Nigeria.Musa Rafsanjani, Executive Director, CISLAC, disclosed this in a media briefing in Lagos on Wednesday.
Measures to check corruption in extractive industry takes off
Press Ghana Web · Sep 2021
A one-year project aimed at supporting Ghana’s effort at implementing beneficial ownership (BO) information to check illicit activities and corruption in the extractive sector was launched in Accra yesterday.
Collective action can stop corruption in the extractives sector
Press Thomson Reuters Foundation News · Sep 2021
Collective action can stop corruption in the extractives sector. The countries most affected, and the industries where so much of the corruption takes place, need to be at the forefront of putting in reforms.