About ZOGA Holdings

Build, partner, and carry humanitarian logic into commerce.

ZOGA Holdings is the governance, strategy, and philanthropy spine of a Nigerian group structured around three operating pillars — built to partner with regulators and communities rather than work around them.

Abuja, the federal capital of Nigeria
Headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria

ZOGA Holdings is a Nigerian diversified group operating at the intersection of institutional finance, solid-minerals development, and an integrated agro-industrial value chain. The group is chaired by Her Majesty Queen Zaynab Otiti Obanor, whose humanitarian work with the Queen Zaynab Foundation set the institutional posture the commercial group now extends.

The group was designed around a single proposition: commercial operations in Africa are most durable when they are built with regulators and communities, not around them. Each subsidiary is therefore structured to take the patience of development finance and the discipline of institutional capital, and to apply both to the operating realities of its sector.

Across the group the posture is consistent — long-horizon investment, local sourcing where credible, transparent partner selection, and a deliberate link back to the Queen Zaynab Foundation's humanitarian programming. At the group level, strategy is oriented around four levers: corridor capital (ZOGA Capital), responsible mineral development (ZOGA Mining), food-security and processing (ZOGA Agro-Allied), and institutional convening through the Arab African Economic Development Initiative and the Foundation.


Group principles

  • Humanitarian continuity. The Queen Zaynab Foundation remains the group's social spine. Commercial returns are designed to widen, not replace, philanthropic capacity.
  • Regulatory partnership. Operations align with Nigerian regulators — CBN, SEC, and sector-specific agencies — rather than exploit gaps.
  • Community benefit. Local procurement, local employment, and direct community engagement are the first questions in deal structuring, not the last.
  • Long horizons. Success is measured in decades, not quarters — in lives touched, jobs created, institutions built.
From the Chairperson
"To change the world is to first change our thought towards giving — and it has to be a collective movement."