blocHaus Africa: Who Runs It, Who Builds For It, and What the Project Record Shows

What the public record establishes about blocHaus Africa is narrow and specific: one founder, one engineering subsidiary, three named consultants, and a portfolio concentrated at Eleko on the Lekki peninsula with outliers in Ibadan and near the Lekki-Epe Expressway. What that record mostly does not establish is a handover history, with one exception the company states itself. For a buyer weighing an off-plan purchase, that is the question worth working through, so here is what is documented and what is not.

Who runs the company

The consistent name across every public source is Oke Onyehara. BusinessDay published an interview with him on 21 October 2020 that identified him as the founder of Bloc Haus and set out his background: an LLB (Hons) in Civil Law, an Advanced Management Certificate in Industrial Safety, Planning and Control Management from the Federal College of Education, Akoka, Lagos, and membership of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration in the United Kingdom. Vanguard returned to the company on 28 April 2024 and again described Onyehara as the founder of Bloc Haus Group. His public LinkedIn profile lists him as Group Chief Executive Officer.

No other officers, directors or shareholders appear in any public source we located. The company's own About Us page names no leadership at all. That is not unusual for a developer of this size in Lagos, but it does mean that a buyer's counterparty risk sits with one identifiable person and whatever corporate entity actually signs the contract.

On that entity, the record is thin. The company publishes no RC number on its website, and a search of publicly indexed Nigerian company registry sources did not surface a Corporate Affairs Commission entry under the Bloc Haus or blocHaus names. That is a failed search, not a finding. Nigerian registry data is unevenly indexed by third parties, and the only reliable check is a direct company search at the Corporate Affairs Commission using the exact name printed on the contract.

The corporate structure behind the projects

The company's About Us page identifies Konstrukt Africa as its engineering arm. That is the only subsidiary or affiliate named anywhere in the company's own material, and it matters more than it might appear. Where a developer builds through a separate engineering entity, the company marketing the units and the company carrying construction liability can be two different legal persons. A buyer should know which of them is named in the deed and which is named in the construction warranty, because those are not always the same answer.

Asked in the 2020 BusinessDay interview which contractors the company mainly works with, Onyehara named three firms: PRECCAN Engineering, Technocraft Roofing Systems, and One Enterprise Developments. The answer covered the company's work generally, across soil testing, structural integrity, valuations, mechanical and electrical services and roofing, rather than any single development, so it should not be read as a project-by-project list. Named consultants are still useful to a buyer, because a firm can usually confirm the scope and period of its own involvement on a site.

The head office address given on the company's site is No. 10 Eleko Road, Five Oaks Residences, Eleko, Lagos, which places the office inside one of its own developments. The site gives this as a physical address rather than a registered office, and the two are not always the same in Nigerian filings.

Announced against delivered

Eight projects appear on the company's projects page: The Vault Maisonette, The QUAD, The NONAGON 1.0, Five Oaks Privilege, Five Oaks Residence, Five Oaks Legacy, One Waldorf Residences, and MORADÈ.

Most sit in one place. The Vault is a set of luxury two bedroom maisonettes at Five Oaks Residences, Eleko. The QUAD is contemporary three bedroom detached bungalows on Eleko Beach Road, also within Five Oaks Residences, priced from ₦65,000,000. The NONAGON 1.0 is the newest design on the same road, and it is worth noting that its own listing gives two different entry prices a few lines apart, "Price starts from N60M" in one line and "Starting at N65M" in another. The three Five Oaks schemes share the Eleko address. One Waldorf Residences is described as close to the Lekki-Epe Expressway, with no street address given, and MORADÈ is a gated community in Ibadan that the company presents as launching soon.

Of the eight, exactly one carries a stated handover date: One Waldorf Residences, marketed with the line "Book a unit NOW! Handover Q1,2025." The other seven carry no completion or handover date at all. Five Oaks Residence refers to what the scheme will host "upon completion" without giving a date, and MORADÈ says only "Launching soon".

The Vault is the one worth reading closely, because it has the longest paper trail. In October 2020 it was already being sold, with BusinessDay reporting an initial deposit of ₦3,999,999 followed by instalments over up to six months, and describing the units as fitted with smart home automation, en-suite bedrooms, a gym and a pool. In April 2024 Vanguard reported that the company had been named Real Estate Developer of the Year in 2018 and that The Vault atelier had taken African Design of the Year in 2023, though the report did not name the bodies making either award. As of April 2026 the company's own page was still marketing The Vault as an asset to buy, with copy promising a guaranteed return on investment through short-letting, and no completion or handover date beside it.

Read that carefully, because it is easy to over-read. The six month figure was a payment schedule, not a construction or delivery commitment, and no source we found states a promised handover date for The Vault at any point. Developers also routinely keep marketing remaining stock in a finished scheme, so a live sales page proves nothing either way about whether the building stands. The accurate statement is the narrow one: the publicly available material does not document a completion or handover for The Vault, and we found no independent source that records one. That is a gap in the record, not a finding about the project.

Two other details deserve a flat reading rather than an alarmed one. Guaranteed return language in off-plan marketing is common in Lagos and is not evidence of anything improper, but a guaranteed yield is a contractual promise, and a buyer should ask to see the clause that creates it and the entity that is bound by it. Awards cited without an awarding body are similarly common in Nigerian developer marketing and are simply unverifiable as stated.

What a buyer should check

Four checks cover most of the exposure here, and none of them depend on taking a view about the company.

First, confirm the exact legal entity. Ask for the RC number, then run it yourself at the Corporate Affairs Commission and confirm the name on the certificate matches the name on the offer letter, the deed and the receipt. If Konstrukt Africa appears anywhere in the paperwork, establish what it is contracting to do.

Second, check the land. The Eleko and Ibeju-Lekki axis carries well known title complications, and the relevant questions are whether the land sits under a certificate of occupancy, an excision and gazette, or a governor's consent on an assignment. Our guide to Nigerian property titles, C of O, R of O and governor's consent sets out what each document does and does not protect.

Third, ask for a delivery reference. A completed scheme has residents. Ask for the address of a handed over unit and the contact details of an owner willing to speak, and visit. One Waldorf Residences is the obvious place to start, since it is the one project the company has publicly dated, and a Q1 2025 handover is recent enough to check on the ground. Our walkthrough on how to verify a property developer before buying off-plan in Nigeria covers the documentary side of the same exercise.

Fourth, understand what oversight exists. Nigeria has no single licensing regulator for residential developers in the way Dubai has RERA or the Philippines has the DHSUD, and membership of a trade association is not a licence. The gap in developer regulation in Nigeria is the reason buyer-side verification carries so much weight here.

Bektu maintains company pages tracking developer delivery history across these markets, and the listing for this company sits at blocHaus Africa. Everything above comes from sources a buyer can open and read. Where a fact could not be sourced, we have said so rather than filled the space.

Sources

• In conversation with foremost Real Estate Developer, Oke Onyehara of Bloc Haus, BusinessDay, 21 October 2020
• Redefining commercial Real Estate development in Lagos, Bloc Haus Group, Vanguard, 28 April 2024
• Blochaus Group, About Us
• Blochaus Group, Projects
• Blochaus Group, company website
• Oke Onyehara, public LinkedIn profile
• Corporate Affairs Commission, company search