About Kaarakata Group
Trade, build, power.
Kaarakata Group is a Lagos-based group of three companies in commodity trading, precast concrete and clean energy. It is founder-led, privately held, and built one proven business at a time.
Origin
Built one proven business at a time.
The group’s first business, started in 2010, served more than 5,000 students at Babcock University. It taught the founder the discipline that still runs the group: price every input, keep every promise, and grow only from what already works.
Kaarakata Global Resources followed, exporting Nigerian commodities under its NEPC registration. Over 15 years it has traded with buyers in 15 countries. Its longest-running line, lump charcoal of 100% Ayin hardwood, built established buyers in the UAE and Turkey on signed contracts and bills of lading, and is now being realigned to Nigeria’s national afforestation framework.
The trading business showed where the bigger gaps were. Nigerian industry runs on diesel it cannot afford, and Lagos builds with blocks of uneven quality. Mansa Energy and Bastion Concrete Industries were formed to close those two gaps.
How the group grew
Three chapters.
Each company was formed on the record of the one before it.
TradeKaarakata Global Resources Limited
Kaarakata Global Resources builds the export record: contracts, shipments, buyers who reorder.
PowerMansa Energy Limited
Mansa Energy takes that commercial discipline into energy infrastructure, starting with a ten-site telecom programme.
BuildBastion Concrete Industries Limited
Bastion Concrete Industries adds manufacturing: a MASA-equipped precast plant structured with development-bank debt and German export-credit cover.
How we work
Operating principles.
The rules the group already runs by, written down.
Prove before scaling
New buyers start with a trial consignment. Volume follows performance, and letters of credit follow trust.
Document everything
Every trade runs on a signed contract and a bill of lading. Our record is something a lender can read.
Sequence the capital
Each project has an anchor lender first and development finance second, so no facility is built on another that has not closed.
Build to lender standard
Corporate objects, contracts and models are drafted to project-finance and ESG standards from the first page.
Leadership
Segun Adedeji
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Segun Adedeji founded Kaarakata Group in 2010 and is the sole promoter of its three companies. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, and leads the group’s commercial, financing and partnership work from Lagos.
In this section
How the group is led, governed and measured.
Leadership
The Founder’s record and the senior bench the group is appointing.
Governance
Ownership, the holding structure, the corporate register and the policy framework.
Sustainability and impact
The standards each project is prepared to, and the six numbers the group will report.
Vision 2035
Where the three companies go next, and the platforms that follow them.