- CEO
- David Dawson
- Full Time Employees
- 97
- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Other transportation
- Address
- Ikeja Nigeria
- IPO Date
- Sep 24, 2007
- Business
- Japaul Gold & Ventures PLC is a Nigeria-based natural resources, mining, and diversified industrial services company engaged in the exploration, mining, and processing of solid minerals, maritime logistics, dredging, and heavy equipment leasing. The company operates through five primary business segments: Mining and Mineral Exploration, which manages the prospecting, exploration, extraction, and processing of precious and base metals, including gold, lithium, copper, lead, zinc, and tin; Dredging and Marine Civil Works, which provides swamp reclamation, commercial sand stockpiling, river channelization, artificial island construction, and marine maintenance through Japaul Dredging Services Limited; Offshore and Maritime Logistics, which supplies offshore support vessels (OSVs), anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels, platform support vessels (PSVs), and tanker support to the upstream petroleum industry through Japaul Shipping & Offshore Services Limited; Quarry and Infrastructure Support, which provides rock quarrying, aggregate crushing, haulage services, and pipeline installation across challenging terrains through Japaul Mines and Products Limited; and Equipment Leasing, which rents specialized industrial machinery, earthmoving plants, and marine equipment. Founded in 1994 as Japaul Oil & Maritime Services PLC and later rebranded to reflect its mineral-centric transformation, the company is headquartered in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, and serves public and private sector clients across West Africa alongside subsidiaries that include Japaul Digital Solution Limited. In recent developments, the company has accelerated its strategic shift toward commercial-scale gold and critical minerals production, advancing toward a corporate target of establishing 30 million ounces of gold in reserves and production by 2030. To fund this transition and expand exploration across key concessions in Osun State, Taraba State, and Northern Nigeria, the company completed a private placement listing of 8 billion additional ordinary shares on the Nigerian Exchange, secured a 20 million USD capital commitment agreement with GEM Global Yield LLC SCS, and obtained shareholder approval to increase authorized share capital to 100 billion shares while authorizing an equity capital raise of up to 500 billion NGN. In addition, the company commenced pilot gold processing operations at its dedicated facility and secured a 26 billion NGN sand mining and land reclamation contract with Gravitas Investment Limited for the Gracefield Island project in Lekki, Lagos.