You can't retrieve your lost documents, upgrade your business name to limited by shares company, change of name, change of address, change of directors/secretary/trustees/partners, amend your business objects or constitution, change shareholders, guarantors or increase in share capital if the status of your entity is inactive(red) or your account is due but still shows green.
You must pay for CAC annual returns and all default years must be paid. It is after annual returns have been filed and status changed to active, then you can now file for other post incorporation changes.
Pay your annual returns on time, to avoid piling up of penalties for your business.
For business name, annual returns is paid before 30th of June or 31st of December every year except in the year of registration. It means, that if your business was registered in 1st January 2023, 1st January 2024, makes it a year. Then you have to file it before June 30th of 2024.
Limited by shares company annual returns is filed 18 months after it was registered.
Incorporate trustee such NGO, churches, mosques and associations file it every year after the year of incorporation.