We help Nigerians build things that cross borders.
A business, registered and compliant, that outgrows the informal economy. A person, admitted and settled, studying or working abroad. Two journeys — one team that handles both.
Founded in 2022 · Based in Ibadan, serving all 36 states + Nigerians abroad
Why Essmond Consult exists
Essmond Consult started with a frustration we kept meeting in two different rooms
In the first room: brilliant entrepreneurs — traders, tailors, tech founders — running real businesses that couldn’t open corporate accounts, couldn’t sign contracts, couldn’t get a TIN, because nobody had made registration and compliance feel theirs. The process felt designed to be outsourced to a “guy” who kept all the passwords.
In the second room: ambitious students and workers dreaming of the UK, Canada, Germany — losing years and millions of naira to agents who quoted fairy tales, took full payment upfront, and went silent until the refusal letter arrived.
We built Essmond Consult to be the third option: a consult that treats your business like a business and your future like it’s ours.
The rules we run on
Every CAC portal, email account, application profile, and document is created in your name with your credentials. Nothing lives on our side. If we disappeared tomorrow, your business and your applications wouldn’t notice.
A business name CAC will reject? We’ll say so before you pay a filing fee. A study-abroad profile that isn’t ready this year? We’ll tell you what to fix and when to return. A short “no” from us is cheaper than a refusal letter from anywhere else.
Visas and approvals belong to the embassy and CAC — not to us, not to any agent. We guarantee the part we control: complete files, honest timelines, and weekly communication even when nothing has moved. Silence is what bad agencies do. We do the opposite.
You shouldn’t need a day off work and three trips across town to register a business or start an application. Your entire journey with us runs in one chat thread — with documents digital and deadlines tracked for you.
An RC number isn’t the finish line — it’s the starting block for tax, banking, and growth. A visa approval isn’t the end — flights, housing, settling in, family reunification follow. We built our services as lifecycles, not transactions.
Two journeys, one front door
By the numbers
Proof, not promises
Meet the founder / team
The people behind the WhatsApp
Essien Monday Akpan
CEO
Ready when you are.
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