Career
Azibaola Robert has, all through, been a pioneer of organisations and companies through which he has employed hundreds of people. In 2002, Azibaola Robert established Mangrovetech, an engineering and construction entity based in Port Harcourt. In 2008, Azibaola moved the headquarter of his company to Abuja to have a more encompassing national presence in Nigeria's Federal Capital City. In 2013, Mangrovetech rebranded with its name formally changed to Kakatar and became Group of Companies, under which are several other Kakatar companies like Kakatar CE, Kakatar EL, and Kakatar Electrics.
Over the years, Kakatar has grown to become One of Nigeria’s foremost indigenous construction and engineering companies involved in multibillion naira-worth of construction works across Nigeria - building roads, bridges, district engineering infrastructures and dredging activities.
Azibaola Robert is also the founder and Chairman of OnePlus Holdings Nigeria Limited, an investment and holding company, as well as Greetings Media, owners of Greetings Radio and TV.
He also founded one of Nigeria’s top-brand lottery company, Give 'n' Take Lottery. He is the founder and Chairman of Zeetin Engineering, a company with focus on bringing Nigeria at par with the world in technological development, especially in the areas of precision engineering services, fabrication and manufacturing.
Managing Director
Kakatar Group
Azibaola Robert founded Kakatar in 2002, under the previous name Mangrovetech, following his discontinuation of active social, human and environmental rights advocacy. He founded the then Mangrovetech, as a consulting firm, based on his expertise as a peace and conflict resolution expert, derived from his days as a community and social advocate and helped broker peace between multinational companies and communities aggrieved at their operations. Over the years, Mangrovetech gradually shifted focus later to furniture and woodwork, and eventually to civil engineering and construction.
In 2009, Mangrovetech moved its head office to Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital City. In 2013, it rebranded and changed its name to Kakatar CE Ltd.
Kakatar has since become one of the foremost indigenous civil construction companies in Nigeria, handling major projects for the Federal Government of Nigeria, state governments and private entities.
Among its numerous projects are the construction of Kyami District Engineering Infrastructure, Abuja, on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria at the cost of N60.8 billion, the Maitama Extension District Engineering Infrastructure.
Kakatar has enormous capacity in its equipment asset base, and employs hundreds of people across Nigeria. It prides itself as a Nigerian company building Nigeria with bold works. Its clients include, but not limited to, the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), the Federal Ministry of Works (FMW), the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the TRIMING project of the World Bank and the Federal Ministry of Water Resources (FMWR).
Azibaola Robert has piloted Kakatar from inception to date and its growth and resilience is credit to him.
Founder Zeetin
Engineering
AZIBAOLA ROBERT is the founder of Zeetin Engineering, a precision engineering and innovative solution company based in Abuja, Nigeria. He founded Zeetin out of his passion for science, engineering and technology and as a way of helping to advance Nigeria into the realm of technological know-how and the provision of jobs for the teeming Nigerian youth population.
Though a privately-owned company, Azibaola hopes that Zeetin will, in the near future, become the tech company of Nigeria and Africa, bringing advanced technologies to people of Nigeria and Africa.
Zeetin is a precision engineering company, specialises in all metal works of all sorts. Proud owners of the latest CNC machines in the industry, Zeetin is poised to take the lead in Nigeria's technological advancement in automobile and heavy-duty.
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Give ‘N’ Take
Azibaola Robert and his wife founded Give 'n'' Take Lottery in 2015 as a multi-platform, A-Class lottery company that conducts lottery draws in the open and gives every player equal chance of winning the lottery price. It was also his desire that proceeds from the lottery wins will alleviate the living conditions of winners, players and a substantial part of the profit to Give 'n' Take applied to charity causes to the needy and less-privileged.
The lottery draws came live from the state-of-the-art studios of Give 'n' Take, Abuja, to the TV screens of millions of Nigerians on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) network, where the numbers were transparently drawn and winners publicly announced.
This great organisation carried on business for about four years before it folded up as a result of technical and portal back-end challenges.
GREETINGS MEDIA
Azibaola Robert and wife, Stella Robert, are the founders of Greetings Media, a media organisation with radio and TV licences to broadcast across Nigeria. Founded in 2014, Greetings Media was granted Television and radio licences in 2015. Greetings Media commenced radio broadcast in Abuja on Greetings 105.7 Frequency Modulation (FM) from its state-of-the-art radio station located in Asokoro, Abuja, which was later moved to Wuse 2 area of the Capital City. The radio station is set up to broadcast news, information and entertainment genre. It also discusses topical issues and happenings in the political space. Work is ongoing to establish other radio stations around the country and the establishment of the Greetings TV.
Entrepreneur
Chairman, Kakatar Group
Founder, Zeetin
