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Money with a heartbeat.

Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals and follows up. Nothing leaves your account without your approval.

Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She holds dollars, pounds, euros and Naira side by side, swaps at a locked rate, pays bills in any of them and sends anywhere, asking before anything moves.

HomeEvery currency, every Box and every card on one screen.
Chat with EvaTell her the goal. She handles the steps and asks before anything moves.
Savings BoxesFlexible, Fixed, Investment and Interest-free, side by side.
Create a BoxPick the type, name the goal. Eva works out what to move, and when.
LoansSpaces credit and Salary Advance. Draw only what you need.
Invite friendsThree friends, ₦50,000 each, and ₦20,000 lands with you.
YouEva’s voice, your plan, your address and every security control.
Duress signalA word that looks normal on screen while your people are alerted.
Chat with EvaTell her the goal. She handles the steps and asks before anything moves.
Swap at the live rateOr name the rate you want and she swaps the moment it lands.
One card, every currencySpend from whichever balance suits, and freeze it from the app.
What Eva may do without askingStanding permissions, a voice, and a record of every rule you have given her.
Receipts anyone can verifyRegular or certified statements, e-signed and checkable by whoever receives them.
Open a personal account How we keep your money safe
Pryme app: Home
Pryme app: Chat with Eva
Pryme app: Savings Boxes
Pryme app: Create a Box
Pryme app: Loans
Pryme app: Invite friends
Pryme app: You
Pryme app: Duress signal
Pryme app: Chat with Eva
Pryme app: Swap at the live rate
Pryme app: Multicurrency card
Pryme app: What Eva may do without asking
Pryme app: Receipts and statements
MoneyAgentsApprovalAgentsEvery currencyYour approval

Open an account. Get money to spend.

Global money. Intelligent growth.

We give you a limit to spend at the shops and services you already use — and an account that works on your month while you get on with it. Dollars, pounds and euros sit beside your Naira, and an assistant handles the running of it, asking you first every single time.

One global account for your money and business. Move across currencies, automate everyday operations and put AI agents to work — with you in control of every important decision.

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Pryme app home: every currency on one balance
Personal · the app in your hand
Salary landed₦920,000 from John Doe Ltd · Naira account
Done
Move ₦100,000 to your Rent Box?Keeps ₦127.9m liquid · earns 18% p.a.
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Paid Ikeja Electric₦18,400 · token sent by SMS
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Swap $200 → ₦310,000?Rate locked at ₦1,550 for 30 s
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Held a ₦150,000 transferNew payee · unusual hour · needs you
Review
Received $2,400From a client · USD account
Done
Swap $200 → £—?Rate locked for 30 s
Approve
Paid the light bill at home₦18,400 · Ikeja Electric
Done
Keep $1,000 liquid, save the rest?$1,400 → Flexible Box
Approve
Held a £2,000 transferNew payee · needs you
Review
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Regulated partnersEvery currency held with a licensed institution in its market
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Eva, the assistant that runs a Pryme accountEvayour assistant
The Chief of Staff agent on a Pryme Business AccountDanielChief of Staff
The Finance agent on a Pryme Business AccountBenFinance
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Inside a mandate you write. Every action logged.
Multi-currency30 currencies on one balanceFlip
Locked rates30 s
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🇬🇧 1 GBP—
🇪🇺 1 EUR—
The rate you see is the rate you get.
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Business Account

Open an account. Get customers.

Your competitor down the road sells the same thing you sell. The difference is who walks in. We put money in people’s hands that can only be spent in businesses like yours — and then we point them at you.

The Pryme Business home page: three currency balances on one account, the money actions, five agents working and a live stream of what they have done
Business · the page your team signs into
Spaces · Nigeria

We hand the customer the money. It can only be spent with you.

You are not borrowing. You are selling to somebody who already has the money — and that money can only be spent with a business like yours.

The business · Pryme Business
johndoe.mypryme.com · Spaces

Spaces Showing 30 days

Spaces is onshoppers near you can see your shop
Spaces brought you · 30 days ₦2,578,550.00 104 sales from 71 shoppers ▼ 4% on the period before
Where the money came from
91% shoppers who had been in before 9% first visit to your shop
21 of 71 came back more than once Average basket ₦24,793.75 Biggest shopper ₦142,300.00
24 Jul returningnew to you 22 Aug
Money on its way to you confirmed at the counter · on its way to your Naira account
Confirmed at the counter ₦47,150.002 sales today · final the moment they paid
Sales of 23 Aug₦90,9503 sales · confirmed
Sales of 24 Aug₦196,2005 sales · confirmed
Sales of 25 Aug₦47,1502 sales · confirmed
nothing for you to do · it arrives on its own
Lands in your NGN account ₦334,300.0010 sales in flight
The shopper · Pryme app
4:34
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BorrowLoans
SpacesSalary Advance
Spaces credit₦21,450 available
Repay ₦78,550
₦78,550 in use₦100,000 limit
Hold 25% · repay 2 more early to drop to 20%

₦100,000 from day one · agreement v2.1 · 12 Aug · View

Near youCategories 9Your loans 9
🛒Grocery / Retail4 places
🍽Eateries / Restaurants4 places
💊Pharmacies3 places
🎬Movies & Cinema3 places
🚌Transport3 places
💇Spa’s & Saloons3 places
Say “Hey Pryme”🎤
HomeBoxes CardsYou
Freeto join, nothing monthly. You are in the app the day you switch it on.
You get paidthe sale settles into your Naira account. Nobody to chase.
Zero riskwe carry the credit, whether or not the shopper repays us.
You growfaces that had never been to your shop — and most come back on their own.
The account

One account. Every currency you trade in.

Pryme Business4 currencies · one ledger
Base
₦127,328,879.23NGN · Nigerian Naira
$1,240.00USD · US Dollar
£480.00GBP · Pound Sterling
€310.00EUR · Euro
  • A named Naira account with Solid Allianze MFB — NDIC insured, your business name on it.
  • Real details abroad. A US account number, a UK sort code, an IBAN for the euro area.
  • Every currency has its own statement — regular or certified, with a code anyone can verify.
Swapping · in the app
4:34
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Current account · NGN ₦127,328,879.23
SwapBoth balances move at once, on one ledger
Fill it inAsk Eva
$1 = ₦1,650.00
FromNGN ▾
250,000Available ₦127,328,879.23
ToUSD ▾
151.52after swap $1,391.52
Rate$1 = ₦1,650.00
Fee—
You get$151.52
NowWhen it hits

Eva waits for your rate and asks before she moves anything.

Target rate
$1 =1,585.00₦
Set the watch
Pryme Pay

Take money on your site, or on a checkout of your own.

No card, no OTP, nothing for the buyer to type in. They transfer from the bank app they already use, and the money lands in the same account your agents are running — already matched to the order, already in your books.

Pay from your bank app

We give the buyer a one-time account number. They transfer to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in.

Get the account number
  • Card details are never asked for, so they cannot leak.
  • The account is used once, then it closes.
  • Held with a licensed bank, insured by the NDIC.
Transfer exactly this amount

To this account, from any bank app. We watch it, and the page updates itself.

Send exactly₦26,767.50Copy
BankSolid Allianze MFB
Account number0000 000 000Copy
Account namePRYME / JOHNDOE‑ORD1042
Watching the account — nobody has to confirm anything.
Payment received

₦26,767.50 from GTBank · John D., matched to order ORD‑1042.

OrderORD-1042
Settled intoJohn Doe Trading Ltd · Naira account 0000 000 000
Receiptsent to the buyer
Get your receiptRun it again
Your checkout, your brand.On the site you already have, in your colours, on your own domain — or on a page we host for you.
A link for anything you sell.One price, one buyer, one link — sent on WhatsApp, Instagram or email, and paid the same way.
It lands already reconciled.Matched to the order, receipt issued, and in your books before you have looked at it.
Business Account

A team you did not have to hire.

Five agents come with the account. Each one has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — nothing leaves the account without your signature.

CS Chief of Staff Runs the week

Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised — and keeps all three moving.

Booked a meeting with John Doe Foods for Thursday 11:00.
FI Finance Watches the money

Keeps the books as you trade and tells you the moment something does not add up.

Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.
COCompliance Keeps you inside the rules

Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.

Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.
SA Sales Chases what is owed

Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the receipt already attached.

Recovered ₦410,000 across three overdue invoices.
SU Customer Support Answers your customers

Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.

Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.
Every agent prepares and proposes. You are the only one who can approve.
Build on Pryme

Our rails, under your product.

Issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of your own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it. The same rails the Business Account runs on, with the licence behind them.

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Pryme Business

One business account. Every currency you trade in.

Dollars, pounds and euros beside a Naira account, on one ledger and one set of books. Five agents come with it and run the account — nothing leaves without your signature.

The Pryme Business home page: Naira, dollar and pound balances on one account, the money actions, five agents working and a live stream of what they have done
Business · the page your team signs into

A team you did not have to hire

Five agents come with the account. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — they propose, you approve.

CSChief of Staff Runs the week

Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised, and keeps all three moving.

Booked the quarterly review with your auditor for Thursday.
FIFinance Watches the money

Keeps the books in every currency you hold and flags the moment something does not add up.

Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.
COCompliance Keeps you inside the rules

Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.

Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.
SASales Chases what is owed

Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the invoice and the receipt already attached.

Recovered $12,400 across three overdue invoices.
SUCustomer Support Answers your customers

Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.

Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.
Every agent prepares and proposes. You are the only one who can approve.
Open a business account

Ten years, one trunk

The business has changed shape four times and never changed what it was rooted in. Each version was built out of what the last one could not do.

2016E-commerce

An online grocery store, built out of a faulty tab. Selling the food was the easy part — taking the money for it, and moving it, turned out to be the business.

2018OjirehPrime Card

A prepaid card. The first time the company issued rather than resold, and the first time it carried the obligations that come with holding somebody else’s money.

2020Microfinance bank

PrymeSolid Allianze acquired — an existing bank with an existing licence. The perimeter stopped being someone else’s to draw.

2023Multicurrency

More than one currency on one balance, and the rebrand to Pryme. A Nigerian business could hold dollars without holding a second institution.

2026Agentic operations

Accounts that do the work rather than only hold value. Five agents on the account, inside a policy you write — which is where the new mark starts.

Questions

The things people ask us first.

What is Pryme?

Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives people and businesses in Nigeria one account that holds Naira alongside dollars, pounds and euros, and a set of agents that do the running of it — keeping the books, chasing what is owed, answering customers and paying bills. Nothing leaves an account without the owner’s approval.

Can I hold dollars, pounds and euros in a Pryme account?

Yes. A Pryme account holds Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros side by side on one ledger, each with its own account details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area. You can swap between them at a rate you set, and every currency has its own statement.

What is Spaces?

Spaces is available in Nigeria. It gives a shopper money to spend that can only be spent with a participating business. The business is paid into its Naira account whether or not the shopper repays, because Pryme carries the credit. For the business it is free to join, there is nothing monthly, and the customer’s identity is never shown — only a reference and what it is worth.

What do the agents on a Pryme Business Account do?

Five agents come with the account. The Chief of Staff runs the week and keeps what is stuck moving. Finance watches the money and keeps the books as you trade. Compliance keeps the filings on time and screens what moves. Sales chases what you are owed. Customer Support answers your customers and follows up. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set, and each one proposes rather than acts — nothing leaves the account without your signature.

How does Pryme Pay work?

Pryme Pay takes payments on your own site or on a checkout page you control. The buyer is given a one-time account number and transfers to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in. The money lands in the same account your agents are running, already matched to the order and already in your books.

What are Savings Boxes?

Savings Boxes are separate pots inside a Pryme account, held in Naira. Flexible Boxes can be withdrawn at any time, Fixed Boxes hold to a date, Investment Boxes hold for longer, and Interest-free Boxes earn nothing by design. A business can use them to ring-fence payroll and the tax it withholds, so that money cannot be spent by accident.

Who holds my money, and is it protected?

Pryme is a financial technology company, not a bank. Accounts and deposits are provided by Solid Allianze Microfinance Bank Limited, which is licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria and is a member of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Can I build on Pryme?

Yes. Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.

What is Pryme?

Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives you one account that holds US dollars, pounds sterling and euros beside Naira, with an assistant that runs the account for you and asks before anything moves. Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, and further markets open as each licence lands.

Can I open a Pryme account from outside Nigeria?

Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, subject to verification and approval. Foreign-currency balances are held and converted inside that account, so you can hold, receive and swap dollars, pounds and euros wherever you are.

Which currencies can I hold with Pryme?

Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros, side by side on one ledger. Each has its own details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area — and each has its own statement.

How do I send money to Nigeria with Pryme?

Swap at a rate you set rather than the rate of the day, then send to any Pryme username or to a Nigerian bank account. There is no fee to send to another Pryme account.

What does the assistant do?

Eva is the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals, pays what is due and follows up what is owed to you — and asks you before anything moves.

What is Pryme Rails?

Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.

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Small business taxes in Calabar: CRIRS and council levies

Which taxes a small business in Calabar meets: CRIRS presumptive tax, council and market dues, the 2026 small-company rules and fake collectors.

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Pryme editorialCalabar desk · 19 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
The short answer

A small business in Calabar mainly deals with the Cross River State Internal Revenue Service (CRIRS), which collects personal income tax from sole traders and partnerships, including through a presumptive system for traders whose income is hard to measure, plus council and market levies. A registered company with turnover of ₦100 million or less and fixed assets of ₦250 million or less is exempt from companies income tax and VAT registration under the 2025 reforms. CRIRS has said its reform aims to cut multiple levies, so pay only against official demand notices and receipts.

Ask ten Calabar traders what tax they pay and you will hear ten answers: a ticket from a man at the market gate, a council receipt, a CRIRS demand, a union due. Some of these are lawful taxes, some are lawful levies, and some are collections with no legal basis. This guide sorts them out using what CRIRS and the new federal tax laws say, and tells you what to ask for before you pay anyone.

Who taxes a small business in Calabar

AuthorityWhat it collects from small businessesApplies to
CRIRS (state)Personal income tax, including presumptive tax for small traders and artisans; PAYE for staff you employSole traders, partnerships, employers
Nigeria Revenue Service, NRS (federal; formerly FIRS)Companies income tax, VAT, withholding tax on companiesRegistered companies (Ltd)
Calabar Municipal or Calabar South councilApproved local levies such as shop and signage fees, market dues where the council runs the marketBusinesses with premises in the council area
Unions and associationsMembership duesMembers only; dues are not a tax

Whether you are a sole trader (registered as a business name with CAC) or a company changes which of the top two rows applies. Our guide to registering a business in Calabar covers the CAC and CRIRS taxpayer ID steps.

CRIRS and presumptive tax

At a sensitisation meeting in Calabar reported by Radio Nigeria South South on 30 January 2026, CRIRS chairman Prince Edwin Okon said the state's reform aims to harmonise taxes, reduce multiple levies and ease the burden on the informal sector. He described a presumptive tax system for small traders and artisans whose income is hard to determine: rather than auditing books a trader does not keep, the tax is assessed on an estimate of what a business of that kind and size earns. He also spoke against arbitrary levies collected through unions and road collections, and said transporters would pay a single ticket at the point of loading.

The report did not give presumptive tax amounts or thresholds, and none were found on an official CRIRS page. Ask CRIRS for your assessment in writing. If you keep simple records of sales and costs, you can ask to be assessed on actual income instead, which may be lower in a weak year. Our presumptive tax explainer sets out how the method works nationally.

The POS levy and transport tickets

The Cross River State Government news site reported that the Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria (AMMBAN) met CRIRS over a ₦100 daily tax on POS operators, and asked for a monthly or annual consolidated payment instead. The report was undated and did not state the legal basis. Separately, Vanguard reported on 5 March 2026 that tricycle operators in Calabar protested daily levies of ₦600 to ₦1,200 depending on route, blaming unauthorised task forces; the state had suspended task forces targeting minibus operators the week before. If you run a POS stand or a keke, keep every receipt and ask which agency issued the ticket.

Companies: the small-company rules from 2026

The Nigeria Tax Act 2025 and Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025 took effect on 1 January 2026. According to summaries by WTS Blackwoodstone (22 January 2026) and Forvis Mazars (16 March 2026):

  • A small company is one with turnover of ₦100 million or less and fixed assets of ₦250 million or less; professional services firms are excluded.
  • Small companies are exempt from companies income tax and the development levy, and the old minimum tax has been removed.
  • A small business meeting the threshold is exempt from registering for, charging and filing VAT, though it may opt in. VAT stays at 7.5% for others.
  • Every company still files a yearly self-assessment return, even if no tax is due, and must keep records for at least six years (Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025, sections 11 and 31).

The exemption is not automatic relief from filing. A Calabar company that misses its return can still face penalties. See the small-company exemption conditions for detail.

Worked example: a provisions shop in Calabar South

An example only. Bassey runs a provisions shop near Watt Market as a registered business name. In a year she might meet: a CRIRS personal income tax assessment (presumptive, unless she shows records); a council shop or signage levy if her council charges one; market dues if her stall is in a council-run market; and her traders' association dues. If she later incorporates and her turnover stays under ₦100 million, she would file a company return to NRS but pay no companies income tax, and she need not register for VAT. Her CRIRS personal tax would then apply only to what she draws as salary or dividends, through the company.

What to check before you pay

  1. Ask for a written demand notice naming the agency, the law or bye-law, the amount and the period.
  2. Pay into the account on the demand notice or through the agency's official channel, never cash to an individual without an official receipt.
  3. Keep receipts for at least six years, the record period the 2025 administration law sets.
  4. If a collector cannot show identification and a demand notice, report to CRIRS or the council revenue office.
  5. Check whether your association has agreed a consolidated payment, as AMMBAN asked for POS operators.

This is general information drawn from the sources listed, not tax advice. For your own position, speak to CRIRS or a chartered tax practitioner.

Where Pryme fits

Good records make it easier to contest a presumptive estimate. A Pryme Business Account keeps sales and spending in one place, the Finance agent built by Pryme Intelligence prepares summaries for you to review, and its work is recorded. Statements can be issued as verifiable documents with VerifyDoc.ai when a tax office asks for proof; see verifiable receipts and statements.

Questions people ask

What tax does a small trader pay in Cross River?

Sole traders pay personal income tax to CRIRS, often assessed under a presumptive system for traders whose income is hard to measure, plus any approved council or market levies. CRIRS has not published presumptive amounts on a page we could check, so ask for your assessment in writing.

Is the ₦100 daily POS tax in Cross River legal?

The state government news site reported a ₦100 daily CRIRS tax on POS operators, which AMMBAN asked to be consolidated; the report did not state the legal basis. Ask CRIRS for the demand notice and law before paying.

Do small companies pay company tax in Nigeria from 2026?

Under the Nigeria Tax Act 2025, companies with turnover of ₦100 million or less and fixed assets of ₦250 million or less, excluding professional services firms, are exempt from companies income tax, but they must still file returns.

How do I know if a levy collector in Calabar is genuine?

A genuine collector can show identification and a written demand notice naming the agency, the law and the amount, and will issue an official receipt. Pay into official accounts, not cash to individuals.

Sources

  1. Radio Nigeria South South: Cross River IRS sensitises stakeholders on new tax law (30 Jan 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  2. Cross River State Government: Cross River IRS engages POS operators amid controversy over daily tax · accessed Oct 2026
  3. Vanguard: Calabar tricycle operators protest high ticket rates (5 Mar 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  4. Mondaq / WTS Blackwoodstone: The Nigerian tax reforms, what it means for MSMEs and individuals (22 Jan 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  5. Forvis Mazars: Nigeria's tax reform in focus, 2025 NTA VAT key business changes (16 Mar 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  6. Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025 (gazette copy) · accessed Oct 2026

This article is general information, not financial, legal or tax advice. Products described are provided under the terms on this site and are subject to regulation and eligibility.

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