Dear Naija Pythonistas, It is with great delight I bring you good news that Python Nigeria has now been registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with RC Number : 96572 You can find the registration via public search on their portal http://publicsearch.cac.gov.ng:8080/comsearch/test.php Many of us that are familiar with how complicated this process can be, especially dealing with the government authorities can attest and understand the difficulties we have had. We decided to share with you some of these challenges upon the successful registration. Many times CAC rejected our community name suggestions like (Python Users Nigeria Group, python Nigeria, and a host of many others) They even went ahead to reject our first application after publishing in the newspaper because they believed we wanted to start a community of Python(the actual snakes) rearers, and even with our documentation on the communities aims and goals it was a lot of back and forth issue. It took a lot of convincing thanks to the consistent fight by our Chair person Chukwudi to explain to them via our Lawyers that we are just as scared of snakes as they were and our community wasn't about the actual Snake or some sort of cult. lol Many of you when we started this process thankfully donated to pay for the registrations and I just want to say without your help this would not have been possible. This couldn't have come at a better time ; just in time as PyConNG draws near. As a registered community we can now send invitation letters to international attendees to facilitate the visa process and official letters to organisations. *shines teeth* I would personally like to thank collectively everyone who made this possible, Friends and members of the community who donated funds, the members of the Board for making this possible and especially Chuks for being the front runner in this feat. Signing out Shoki style :D ..... Aisha On Behalf of the General Secretary.