Ack-Hub Matrix Limited: Architects, Developers, or Both, and What the Rivers Record Shows

Registration under the Companies and Allied Matters Act is also a low bar on its own. It confirms a legal entity exists and can be sued. It says nothing about whether that entity owns land or has built anything.

Three addresses and no named officers

The public listings place the company in three different parts of Port Harcourt. Daibau gives Rumukrueshi. BusinessList gives Reikebulaeze Street, near the Second Salvation Ministry junction, off the Rukpokwu to Eneka link road. Infoisinfo gives Ada-George, with postcode 500102. Small firms move, and directory records go stale, so three addresses across listings of different vintages is unremarkable in itself. It does mean a buyer should confirm the current registered office from the Corporate Affairs Commission file rather than from a directory, and should visit it.

On the people, the record is empty. None of the listings names a director, a managing partner or a principal architect. A comment attributed to the business owner on one listing is signed with a first name only. That is not enough to identify anyone, and this profile names no individual as a result.

That absence has a specific consequence for the professional question. The Architects (Registration, etc.) Act, Cap A19 of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, restricts architectural practice to registered persons. Section 1 provides that a person shall not take full responsibility for architectural building plans, or carry on business under a name containing the word "architect", unless registered under the Act. Section 5 requires the Registrar to maintain a register of architects, and section 5(2)(b) requires a separate register of architectural firms eligible to practise. Section 14 makes unregistered practice an offence. A firm trading on architectural services can therefore be checked against the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria registers, and the name of the registered architect responsible is the thing to ask for. The same logic applies on the engineering side through the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, whose enabling Act governs who may practise and which firms are registered to do so.

What is not on the record

There is no named estate, no named tower, no delivery date and no handover record attached to the firm anywhere in the sources reviewed. There are no court filings, no regulator notices and no published complaints either. Both halves of that matter. A thin record is not an adverse record, and nothing found here suggests any finding against the company. It does mean a buyer has nothing external to check a sales claim against, which is a different and more ordinary risk than misconduct.

That is also where the consultancy question stops being semantic. A consultancy designs and supervises. A developer acquires the land, holds or assembles the title, carries the construction risk and sells the finished units. If the firm on the signboard is acting as consultant to someone else's scheme, the counterparty on a purchase contract is that other party, and that is whose registration, title and track record need checking. Ack-Hub Matrix Limited's own materials point to the consultancy role, while the directory categories point to both. Only the contract and the title documents resolve it.

What to ask for in Rivers State

Three documents answer most of the question. The first is the company search result from the Corporate Affairs Commission against RC1574231, naming the entity and its directors. The second is the title document for the specific land, which under the Land Use Act 1978 means a certificate of occupancy or a registered instrument traceable to one, together with the governor's consent required under section 22 of the Act for any assignment of a statutory right of occupancy. A search at the Rivers State lands registry against the parcel, not against the company, is what confirms it. The third is the name and registration number of the architect or engineer of record, checked against the ARCON or COREN register rather than accepted from a brochure.

Bektu (https://bektu.com) keeps developer records so delivery history can be checked against claims rather than taken on trust, and the company page for this firm sits at bektu.com/companies/ack-hub-matrix-limited. The broader point generalises past this one name. A firm that appears in developer categories while describing itself as a consultancy is common in Nigerian property marketing, and the same split shows up in CW Real Estate's record in Lagos. For buyers looking at the city rather than one firm, the wider survey of property developers in Port Harcourt and the file on Navitas Realties Limited cover how far the documentation usually goes in the same market.

Sources

- Ack-Hub Matrix Limited, company website

- Company listing, BusinessList Nigeria

- Company listing, Daibau Nigeria

- Company listing, infoisinfo Port Harcourt

- Corporate Affairs Commission, company search

- Architects (Registration, etc.) Act, Cap A19 LFN 2004

- Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, COREN Act

- Land Use Act 1978