A dividend goes unclaimed when the payment never reaches its owner: a paper warrant posted to an old address, shares bought before you registered a bank mandate, or a holding inherited without the paperwork. The money does not disappear. It sits with the company's share registrar until someone claims it, and the SEC put the national pile at about ₦270 billion as of July 2026.
The fix is an e-dividend mandate: a one-time registration that tells your registrar which bank account to pay you into. Once it is active, future dividends arrive as bank credits, and you can ask the registrar to pay out anything that accumulated in your name.
Vantis cannot see registrar records and does not know whether anything is waiting in your name. This page only links you to the official places to check. Every search and claim happens on the registrar's, SEC's, or NIBSS's own site; nothing you type there passes through Vantis.
Each listed company appoints one share registrar, and that is who holds any unclaimed dividend on its shares. Vantis has verified the registrar for 59 NGX companies against corporate-action filings. Sign in with your positions logged and this page lists the registrar, contact details, and claim route for each stock you hold.
