About Skratchsphere

Built for how Nigerian estates actually run.

Skratchsphere Limited makes the utilities and daily operations of estates and commercial buildings work the way residents were promised. Boreholes that deliver clean water. Sewage plants that pass inspection. Power that is metered and explained. An estate manager who shows the books.

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Senior engineer training two technicians at water filter vessels

How we started

A problem everyone in Nigerian estates knows, and nobody owned.

Water from the borehole that stained the tiles and was never tested. A sewage plant installed at handover and never serviced again. A diesel bill that rose every month while nobody could explain the tariff. Service charges collected, and accounts never shown.

A team of engineers and facility managers who had spent their careers inside these estates decided the answer was not another vendor. It was an operator: one company that would check the systems, fix what was broken, run them every day and report every month to the people paying for them. That company is Skratchsphere Limited, which had its inception in 2019, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today we support more than 20 estates on Chevron Drive in Lekki, estates in Abuja and Port Harcourt, and office buildings in Lekki and Marina, and we are installing and commissioning new water and sewage plants on estates under construction. The promise has not changed since the first contract: check, fix, run, report.

Technician reading a pressure gauge in an estate water treatment room

8Leaders named and accountable

4Service lines under one contract

37States and the FCT, site visits on request

12Written reports a year, every site

Vision

Every estate and building in Nigeria running on water you can drink, sewage that passes inspection, power you can budget for and accounts you can read.

Mission

To design, fix and run the water, sewage, power and daily operations of estates and commercial buildings across Nigeria, with registered engineers on site, open books every month and one accountable partner from the first inspection to the last report.

Where we are going

Three goals, with dates attached.

We publish our goals so our clients can hold us to them.

2027
Results on record
Monthly water and effluent test results published for every estate we run, and solar hybrid power delivered to our first estates with financing partners.
2028
Teams in three cities
Operations teams based in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, serving estates and buildings in every geopolitical zone.
2030
Estates built around their utilities
Water, sewage and power designed, built and operated for new estates from the drawing board, and the first estates developed by Skratchsphere itself.

What we believe

Four rules we work by.

Open books.: Any money we manage on behalf of residents is reported monthly and audited annually. If a number cannot be explained, it should not be on the bill.
Engineering discipline.: Plants get designed, commissioned, maintained and tested on a schedule. We would rather tell you a plant is undersized than let it fail on a public holiday.
Ownership.: One contract, one accountable manager, one number to call. When something breaks at 2am, it is our problem before it is yours.
Proof over promises.: Every claim on this site is a site we run, a result we measured or a goal with a date on it.

Leadership

The people accountable for the promise.

Each one named, and each accountable in writing for a part of the promise.

Cajethan (Chukwujekwu) Nwangwu

General Manager

Cajethan runs Skratchsphere day to day from Nigeria and leads its relationship with every client. A chemical engineer and a certified management consultant, he runs the company the way he would advise a client to run theirs: one accountable owner for every system, decisions taken from measured numbers, and a written report to the people paying, every month.

He answers to each client's executive committee for what every Skratchsphere contract sets out: the scope, the response times, the monthly report and the annual audit. He holds the company to its four rules, open books, engineering discipline, ownership and proof over promises, and he is the person an exco calls when any of them is broken.

B.Eng Chemical Engineering · FIMC, Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants · CMC, Certified Management Consultant · 10 years

Chijioke Ofoegbu

Head of Finance and Commercial

Chijioke keeps Skratchsphere's books open. He is accountable for the finance in every monthly estate report: service charge billed, collected and outstanding by unit, spend against the approved budget, and the reconciliations behind each figure. He prepares the accounts for the annual independent audit, and runs the commercial side of the business: the financial models for solar hybrid systems delivered with financing partners, the tariff formula in each energy service agreement, and the business cases that show an exco which upgrade pays back first. An accountant, he holds a Master's in Investment Analysis from Aston Business School and a first-class degree in Finance from the University of Lagos.

Accountant · MSc Investment Analysis, Aston Business School · BSc Finance (First Class), University of Lagos · Service charge accounting · Financial modelling and valuation

Harrison (Chibuzo) Idimogu

Head of Water and Wastewater

Harrison leads Skratchsphere's water and wastewater engineering: treatment plant design, sewage plant rehabilitation and new builds, commissioning, and the monthly testing that keeps every plant within the national drinking water standard and state effluent limits. A COREN-registered chemical engineer with twelve years in engineering, he was one of the pioneer engineers on the basic and detailed engineering design, EPC and commissioning of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals: at 650,000 barrels per stream day, the world's largest single-train refinery, and a US$19 billion project. He holds an MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering from the University of Aberdeen, and supervises the design and commissioning of every plant Skratchsphere builds or rehabilitates.

COREN R62853 · NSE Corporate Member 56178 · NSChE Corporate Member M2381 · IChemE Affiliate Member 200128321 · B.Eng Chemical Engineering, Nnamdi Azikiwe University · MSc Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Aberdeen · 12 years

Emmanuel Egbuche

Head of Energy

Emmanuel leads Skratchsphere's energy work: metered audits, generator and fuel controls, prepaid metering and tariffs, and solar hybrid systems delivered with financing partners. He brings over ten years in energy services, including more than five years maintaining generator, battery and hybrid power systems on telecom sites across Nigeria. He holds an MSc in Energy Engineering from the University of Hull, where he also modelled capital investment and asset performance as an energy engineer. At Skratchsphere he turns that into the number every exco wants: the true cost per kilowatt-hour, and a plan to bring it down.

MSc Energy Engineering, University of Hull · Generator, battery and hybrid power systems · Asset performance and capital investment planning · 10+ years

Obinna Obiaga

Head of Facility Management and Operations

Obinna runs the estates and buildings Skratchsphere manages, day and night, drawing on fifteen years in facility management and estate operations. The estate managers, shift supervisors, helpdesk and vendor contracts report to him, and so does the operations section of the monthly estate report: collections follow-up, vendor performance, and helpdesk tickets opened, closed and overdue. When an estate changes manager, he runs the ninety-day transition, from the handover audit and asset register to the residents' briefing.

Facility management and estate operations · 15 years

Chisom (Stanislaus) Ezeanyanwu

Head of Strategy and Partnerships

Chisom sets Skratchsphere's strategy and builds the partnerships that fund and equip its work. He is an engineer with more than ten years across energy, water and mechanical works, with a working knowledge of how each part of an estate's utilities is designed, built and paid for. As a consultant he has advised organisations on strategy, fundraising, technology and supply partnerships, business development and market research. At Skratchsphere he leads the company's work with lenders, development and climate funds and financing partners, secures the technology and equipment behind each project, and runs business development and research into new markets and services. He is based in the United Kingdom and is the company's point of contact for international funders and manufacturers.

B.Eng Mechanical Engineering, Nnamdi Azikiwe University · Strategy and partnerships · Fundraising · Technology and supply partnerships · Business development · 10+ years

Abraham Obiechie

Senior Project Planner and Project Lead

Abraham plans, schedules and controls Skratchsphere's water, sewage and energy projects, from the Health Check programme through installation and commissioning to handover. A chemical engineer with a process engineering background, he knows the unit operations inside every plant he schedules: aeration, filtration, softening, adsorption and disinfection in water treatment; biological treatment, clarification and sludge handling in sewage; load and fuel balances in power. His programmes follow how plants are actually built and commissioned, so the sequence on paper matches the sequence on site.

MSc Chemical Engineering (Distinction) · PRINCE2 Practitioner · Construction planning · Programme controls · Delay analysis · Primavera P6 and earned value management · 10 years

Samson (Henshaw) Onyeabor

Senior HSSEQ Manager

Nineteen years leading health, safety, security, environment and quality in oil and gas, maritime, construction and facilities across the UK, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. At Skratchsphere he owns the HSSEQ management system: method statements, confined-space and electrical isolation, chemical handling, site security coordination, incident reporting, quality audits of every service line, and the induction every technician completes before working on an estate.

ISO 9001 · 14001 · 45001 · 50001 lead auditor and implementer · ISM, ISPS and MLC lead auditor · 19 years

Where we work

On site in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, available across Nigeria.

Case study · Lagos

Midland Court Estate, Chevron Drive, Lekki

Facility management, energy, water treatment and sewage treatment under one contract.

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Nationwide

Site visits in all 36 states and the FCT.

Site teams are scheduled by region. Every contract, wherever it is, gets the same monthly report and the same response commitments in writing.

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See how we would run your estate.

One site visit, one written report, then you decide.

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