Tibilon Construction Ltd: the NUPRC estate, the delivery claims and the FCCPC seal

Nigeria's consumer protection regulator sealed the Abuja office of Tibilon Construction Ltd on 21 May 2026, and the public record since then shows no reported reopening. For anyone holding a payment receipt from the company, that single fact matters more than anything on its website. This article sets out what is documented about the company's projects, its named management, its institutional partner, and the regulatory action against it, with a source for each point.

What the FCCPC did, and under which law

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission sealed the business premises of two Abuja property companies on Thursday 21 May 2026. One was Ti'Bilon Construction, Real Estate and Facility Management Company. The other was Ochacho Group Worldwide, which Blueprint and the Gazette both reported operates under the name Ochacho Real Homes.

Marvin Nadah, the FCCPC's Deputy Director of Surveillance and Investigations, led the exercise and spoke to reporters at the scene. Leadership and the Peoples Gazette quoted him saying the commission had issued compliance notices to the firms since June 2025 and that "we have sealed their business premises" because those notices went unanswered. Blueprint quoted him on a separate point: "We ordered the entity to make a refund to the consumer but that was not done." Vanguard reported that Nadah described prosecution as possible and said the minimum condition for reopening is compliance.

The statutory basis reported varies by outlet, which is worth noting rather than smoothing over. Leadership, Blueprint and the Peoples Gazette cite section 154 of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018. National Accord cites section 150(4) of the same Act. Businessday cites section 150. Vanguard cites both 154 and 150(4). The Act is the same in each case, and the commission's power to seal premises for non-compliance with a compliance notice sits in that part of it.

Vanguard put the sealed Ti'Bilon premises at No. 4 Santana Close, Wuse. That address matches the one on the company's own website, which gives its office as 4 Santana Close, off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja. The allegation reported across every outlet is the same: consumers paid in full for properties that were not handed over, in some cases for more than three years, and the companies did not comply with the commission's directives to remedy it.

None of the outlets that covered the action reported a response from either company. No published record of the seals being lifted has surfaced since, though that is a limit of what is publicly reported rather than a statement about the companies' current compliance status.

What Tibilon Construction has announced

The clearest documented project is institutional. In June 2022, Vanguard reported that Ti'Bilon Construction and Facility Management Limited had partnered with the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission staff cooperative to build roughly 400 housing units for NUPRC workers in Abuja, under the name La Bella Casa Estate, on a stated eighteen month timeline. That puts the announced completion around the end of 2023.

The article named the people on both sides. Dr Tochukwu Nnamoko was quoted as chief executive of Ti'Bilon, saying "our main goal is to bridge this gap by providing luxury, but afford housing for clients." Engineer Gbenga Komolafe, chief executive of NUPRC, was quoted on the need for private sector collaboration, alongside Jide Adeola, the regulator's Executive Commissioner for Corporate Services, and Engineer Adeyemi Adetoyinbo, president of the NUPRC cooperative.

The company's own website lists further developments by name: La Hermosa Casa in Jahi, La Bella Casa Phase II in Guzape, and Villa Dei Fiori. Whether the Guzape phase is a continuation of the NUPRC estate or a separate scheme is not stated anywhere this report could verify, so the two should not be read as the same project. The site also carries headline figures of 385 homes and 568 customers. Those are the company's own numbers. No filing, registry record or independent audit supporting them was located.

Set the announced timeline beside the regulator's account and the gap is the whole story. An estate announced in mid 2022 for completion within eighteen months sits in the same period the FCCPC describes as buyers waiting more than three years for units they had paid for. The commission has not published a project by project breakdown naming which estates its complaints concern, so the two records cannot be mapped onto each other with confidence. What can be said is that the delivery claims on the company's site are unverified and the regulator's file was open long enough to end in a sealed office.

No RC number appears on the company's website, and the Corporate Affairs Commission public search was not reachable when this was compiled, so the registered entity name and incorporation date behind Tibilon Construction Ltd remain unconfirmed here. The site refers to eight years in the industry without giving a year of incorporation.

What a buyer can actually check

Four checks are available to anyone considering a unit from Tibilon Construction Ltd or any Abuja developer, and none of them depend on the developer's own marketing.

Confirm the legal entity. Ask for the RC number and search it on the CAC register directly. Press coverage of the May action used at least three variants of the name, and the entity you contract with should match the one on the receipt and the deed.

Confirm the land title. For an Abuja estate that means a Right of Occupancy or Certificate of Occupancy held by the developer over the specific plot, traced at the Abuja Geographic Information Systems registry, plus building plan approval from the Department of Development Control. A brochure reference to title is not a title search. The same discipline applies across the city, as the verification record for Quantum Construct's Jahi and Jabi sites shows.

Confirm the regulatory file. The FCCPC publishes enforcement activity, and a compliance notice or sealing order against a counterparty is material information before money moves. The commission's action against Life Camp Paradise, covered in this record of the Paradise Estate sealing, followed a similar path from complaint to notice to seal.

Confirm delivery against announcement. Ask for the handover date in writing, the number of units completed in the named estate, and the contact details of buyers who have taken possession. A board of directors and a public claim are not the same as a completed title transfer, a point the Bilaad Realty delivery claims record works through in detail.

Bektu (https://bektu.com) keeps developer delivery histories and company records in one place so buyers can compare what a firm has announced against what it has handed over. The company record for this developer sits at https://bektu.com/companies/tibilon-construction-ltd.

A sealed office is not a finding of fraud and no court has made one here. It is a regulator stating that it issued directives, that they were not complied with, and that it used the power the Act gives it. For a buyer, that is the point at which questions should be asked in writing and answered in writing before any further payment.