THREE PROJECTS · IN DEVELOPMENT
The work ahead.
What the group is building, in the order it is being built. Projects, not press releases.
How to read this
Projects, not press releases
These are the businesses Ezeme is building, written as projects: what will be made, where, and for whom. The businesses that already trade are listed separately, on Businesses, and nothing appears there before it exists.
Where a project is in planning, the detail below is the design. Capacity, order books and finances belong to the group's private records.
01 · First
Furniture & Soft Furnishings
Nkpor, Idemili North, Anambra State, Nigeria
The group's first business: one workshop, two crafts, built for institutions.
Furniture builds the frame. Soft furnishings finish it. Run from one workshop they share a supply chain, a delivery fleet and a quality standard — and an institutional buyer can order a complete fit-out, framed and finished, from a single contract.
Most competitors sell furniture or furnishings. The group sells a finished room.
| What it will make | Desks, chairs, beds, cabinets and joinery; and the cushions, mattresses, upholstery, curtains, bed linen and rugs that complete them. |
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| Who it will supply | Schools and dormitories, offices, hospitals and clinics, and hotels — institutional contracts first, retail second. |
| Why it lasts | Every piece from kiln-dried timber. Air-dried and green timber — what most workshops in Anambra use — warps and cracks within three to five years. Foam and fabric are verified rather than assumed. |
| Materials | Timber from Niger Delta hardwoods and Cross River and Ondo plantations through Onitsha merchants; MDF and plywood through Apapa; foam, fabric and thread through Onitsha. |
| Power | Solved independently of the grid. Woodworking is a heavy load, and a workshop that stops when the grid does cannot hold an institutional contract. |
02 · Planning
Ozi Ikoro
Awka, Anambra State
A museum, art gallery and anthropological research hub in a converted warehouse.
The name is the purpose: Ozi Ikoro — “Message of the Drum”. The museum speaks, communicating history and identity through objects, images and scholarship.
The concept is deliberately two-sided: the intellectual depth of a museum with the commercial energy of a gallery, so that preservation funds itself. Around the galleries sit an anthropology library and archive, a digital theatre, and a conservation laboratory the public can watch.
| The Artefacts | “Footprints in Red Earth” — historical objects shown in small rotating groups under single-object lighting, in silence. |
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| The Art | “The Future of Form” — a commercial gallery for contemporary Nigerian artists, showing solo and group exhibitions. |
| The Mixed | “Drawing and Object” — nineteenth-century sketches hung beside the tools and objects they depict, so the visitor sees how Igbo life was drawn and what it was drawn with. |
| The archive | A climate-controlled library and archive of Igbo and south-east Nigerian studies: rare books, early ethnographic works, missionary publications in Igbo, maps, and oral history recordings. |
| The digital theatre | Historic film of Igboland — colonial film unit archives, early ethnographic footage and broadcast archives — shown on a decoder wall with individual viewing stations. |
| The conservation laboratory | Glass-walled and visible from the main path: cleaning, cataloguing and preservation done where visitors can see it. |
03 · Planning
Ezeme Agriculture
The Idemmili belt and Nkpor
Production where the land is affordable; processing where the market is.
Production sits in the Idemmili belt, where land is affordable. Processing sits at Nkpor, which is too valuable to farm — the same site as the group's headquarters, with storage, packaging and quality control alongside.
| Production | Primary crop production on Idemmili land, developed as a working farm rather than a land holding. |
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| Processing | An agro-processing line for staples — cassava and rice products, palm oil, milled flour — with a cold storage hub, a packaging unit and a quality-control laboratory. |
| Why it belongs to the group | The furniture and soft furnishings businesses fund land acquisition. Agriculture is the use the land is bought for. |