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TUG GROUP

Standing tall as a corporate entity with African
roots and global reach

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TUG Semiconductors & Innovation centers

Cultivating Innovation: The Semiconductor Hub and Center of Ingenuity

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TUG Telecom & Media

Elevating connectivity to new heights with our innovative solutions.

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TUG Energy & Engineering

Powering the Future with Sustainable Solutions and Innovative Engineering

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THE UDEMBA GROUP

The Udemba Group TUG is an investment group with African roots driven
by the vision to facilitate unexplored African talents so each may contribute
according to their ability for a shared prosperity – a vision that has made us prioritize investments in the knowledge and culture sector as well as on infrastructure that facilitate talents. We operate in diverse sectors spanning Media, Telecoms, Energy, Engineering, Semiconductor and technology innovation. TUG businesses are organized in three operational divisions.

RELIABLE

We focus on Consistent and reliable performance.

TRUST

The Building blocks of enduring business success.

PERFORMANCE

Achieving excellence through consistent, dedicated effort.

TUG Energy & Engineering

TUG Energy City in joint venture with international partners are developing Green Hydrogen Energy Hubs in Africa and the Caribbean to deliver efficient, competitive and clean Energy to power the social, technological and economic transformations of the two regions.

TUG Green Hydrogen Hubs are integrated within Energy SmartCities built and equipped with state of the arts facilities to support the Green Hydrogen industry to survive and thrive in Africa and the Caribbean and position the two regions as important global Green Hydrogen technology development centers and key exporters of ammonia to the world.

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TUG Engineering : deliver world class engineering solutions cost effectively adopting construction methods and construction materials that promote environmental sustainability.

Low cost solutions in Engineering

We Are Leading in Engineering Services

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TUG Semiconductor & Innovation centers

TUG Semiconductor and Innovation division are developing the ecosystems for semiconductor design, fabrication, products development and manufacturing to empower unexplored talents contribute to the technologies of the future from Africa.

TASC Chipset design & Semiconductor Ecosystem

Darkflow Innovation Centers

EkeOha ecosystem in Commerce, Fintech & other services

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TUG media and Telecom

TUG Media is leveraging African content as a social engine to
build a digital footprint of all peoples of African ancestry to
connect the unconnected and ease acquisition of Digital
reception devices across Africa.

MVNO, ISP, IPTV and Content
aggregator license.

WE Mobile MVNO platform provide voice, data, smart home
solutions

TUG Media Brands

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UZO UDEMBA
Group Chairman

Mr Uzo Udemba,

Shortly after graduating with Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the university of Nigeria Nsukka, setup his own business fifty years afterwards in 1993; a Civil Engineering consulting firm which later extended to other sectors of the knowledge and culture industry.

TUG success in Engineering led to a foray into the world of Media and Telecoms with the lunch of Communication Trends Ltd CTL to pioneer affordable media and telecoms.
Lunched the revolutionary Multicipher STB in Africa.
Lunched “Supernet300” Africa’s pioneer fixed high speed wireless broadband.
Honored as Nigeria’s pioneer media technology company by the university of Ibadan, Nigeria’s premier university
Became the first African company to be inducted into the United States National Association of Broadcasters NAB “CUSTOMER WALL OF FAME”.
First to be ranked as West Africa’s number one ISP in a local survey of West African ISPs
TUG launched Trend Tv the first Nigerian owned multi channel satellite FTA DTH TV service.
Become Africa’s largest terrestrial MMDS Pay Tv operator employing over 400 people and a network of 600 service retailers and installers.
Became the first African company to win the Wemmie Award conferred by the American Wireless Cable Association.
CTL spectacular success, leadership and pioneering works in Africa media and telecoms sector earned it “the Best ISP in West Africa” award and its Chairman a seat in the global committee on Wimax
TUG sponsored Five renowned Nigerian Stand-up Comedians to represent Nigeria at the 22nd edition of the MONTREUX COMEDY FESTIVAL in Switzerland.
TUG endowed two professorial chairs at the university of Port Harcourt in support of Technology and the creative arts.
TUG Media and Telecoms transitioned to a Pan African and Pan Caribbean media technology company.
A TUG subsidiary TRENDCORP Africa Limited secured all requisite licenses and approvals to engage in assembly and ultimately manufacturing of Digital devices in Nigeria.
TUG created WE – Mobile to operationalize TUG Media and Telecoms licenses and to distribute the very best of African content globally as the mirror where Africa sees itself day in day out and the window through which the world sees Africa in its many beautiful colors as well as its spectacular landscape and flora and fauna.
Finalized technology and technical partnerships selection process to enable TUG Media disrupt traditional systems to provide fast, reliable and affordable broadband connectivity and bring Africans bypassed by current systems into the global digital economic system.
Commenced WE – Mobile PoC trials in Lagos following receipt of NCC Type Approvals for Curvalux and ARRA.
WE Mobile commercial launch scheduled for Q4 2024.

Our History

The Udemba Group TUG takes its roots from a family tradition of
entrepreneurship and leadership which started with the patriarch of the family PaUdemba Onyenuforo who in 1940 set up a road transportation company as one of the pioneer transport companies in the South Eastern part of Nigeria.

TUG Marshall Plan (TMPA)

TUG Marshall Plan for Africa (TMPA) is a metaphor for a private sector led empowerment of post neocolonial Africas by Africans as the USA led Marshall Planof 1948 empowered Postwar Europe. It will be implemented in JV partnerships with technology and financial partners across the Atlantic Ocean, the India ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and in close collaboration with the African private and public sectors.

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