Nigeria’s non-oil exports reached a record $6.1 billion in 2025, according to the Nigerian Export Promotion Council. Behind the headline is a harder truth for any new exporter: an overseas buyer’s first question is whether the cargo will arrive as specified.
Kaarakata Global Resources answers it the same way on every lane. The buyer first sees samples or burn-test footage. A signed proforma invoice and sales contract follow. The first shipment is a paid trial, settled on arrival, so the buyer judges the product at its own port.
Only then does the programme move to a confirmed letter of credit, shipping in consignments of at least three containers as production is ready. Each consignment is independently inspected and documented with a contract, invoice, packing list, bill of lading and certificate of origin.
The trial costs time. It also removes the buyer’s largest risk before any credit is extended, which is why it leads to bank instruments rather than prepayment disputes. Banks financing the exporter see the same thing: a contract, a performance record and a letter of credit, not a promise.
Fifteen years and fifteen countries later, the sequence has not changed. It is the record that lets the group ask for capital at all.