Background and History
Osprey Investments Group Limited is a British-based Investment, Management and Consultancy firm with over £20 million worth of shareholding funds on its balance sheet, property worth £10 million in Guernsey and Two Hundred Million Naira (N200,000,000.00) vehicular assets and properties in Nigeria.
Osprey is engaged in the development of projects in the oil and gas, bio-fuels and agro-industrial sectors in Nigeria and has a long, successful and distinguished history of consultancy, management and investment in development projects worldwide, particularly in Nigeria with 41 years of experience through its Chairman and Founder, Mr. David Winn. With such vast experience over the years, Mr. David Winn has completed various turnkey projects which in turn has brought him to the knowledge of various State Governments.
In recent years, the Federal Government of Nigeria through the execution of projects both physical and consultancy, earned the firm a reputable standing in the field of Agriculture and Agro-allied Industrial development, particularly in the Northern States of Nigeria where David Winn was heavily involved in the Agri-business sub-sectors of cotton, cereals and seed multiplication.
In 2005, Osprey Investments Group Limited was commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Commerce to spearhead the development of the Nigerian Ethanol Sector and to make Nigeria self sufficient in ethanol; increase large scale irrigated cassava production as raw materials with the north-central part of Nigeria as well as provide same to serve seven ethanol plants. This has led to the signing of contracts and various negotiations for ethanol plants in Akwa-Ibom, Kaduna, Kebbi, Kwara, Kogi, Niger and Nasarawa States and has also led to Osprey being appointed as Project Managers capable of delivering the projects in Kebbi, Nasarawa and Niger States in partnership with a Chinese firm, China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation (CMEC).
Osprey Investments Group Limited obtained the funding for five proposed ethanol plants which included 20,000 hectares of cultivated crops for each plant with a Five Hundred Million US dollars (US$500,000,000.00) funding from China through the involvement of CMEC at an interest rate of 3%.
Osprey Investments Group Limited, was also appointed as Consultants to carry out a due diligence audit of the textile industry by the Presidential Committee on the Revival of Textile Industry in Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Finance.
Osprey Investments Group Limited has completed various Food Security projects in Adamawa State Government in line with the nation’s 7-point Agenda, the Grassroots Empowerment and Micro-Finance Programme and the Agricultural Master Plan which reflects the potential of the State to develop profitable projects for development, facilitation and implementation within its region. Osprey is presently implementing in other States, projects on Food Security; the Grassroots Empowerment Programme, the Agricultural Master Plan as well as the introduction of foreign investors to Adamawa State.
In addition, Osprey has increased its local capital base in Nigeria to cater for project expansion and has widened its scope of activities to include projects in the oil and gas sector. Osprey recently completed the Nigerian National Gas Transportation Network Code Study for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and is keen to see and assist Nigeria in developing as a Nation and in fulfilling the policies of the current administration as identified in the 7-Point Agenda through the implementation of projects and initiatives that will go towards Nigeria achieving its vision of becoming one of the top twenty economies by the year 2020.
The Corporate head office in Nigeria is located in Maitama, Abuja.