For years, Nigeria’s wires and cables market was dominated by imports, brands that were cheap but often ill-equipped to survive the country’s heat, voltage fluctuations, and relentless load-shedding.
Every flicker of a light or sparking socket told a story of cables that couldn’t keep up.
Fast forward to today, and a different story is unfolding.
Indigenous manufacturers are no longer on the sidelines; they are at the heart of powering homes, offices, factories, and telecom networks across the country. From low-voltage wiring in apartments to medium-voltage lines energizing industrial clusters.
Their rise is more than a business success; it is a testament to resilience and innovation. Competing against imports, these entrepreneurs are producing ISO-certified, high-quality cables that meet international standards. They are supporting construction, real estate, and industrial growth while helping stabilize a grid that still struggles to keep up with rising energy demands.
Nigerian wires and cables market is projected to grow at a 5.2% annual rate between 2025 and 2031, reflecting rising demand across residential, industrial, and utility sectors.
As Nigeria’s population grows, so does the need for housing, infrastructure, and industrial power networks, making the role of these local manufacturers even more central to the country’s future.
This list focuses on Nigerian electricity wire and cable manufacturers whose founders are publicly documented. Many players in the sector operate with limited visibility, making it difficult to trace ownership or leadership history
Here are the entrepreneurs driving Nigeria’s wires and cables industry.
Geoelis Cables Limited is one of Nigeria’s longstanding indigenous manufacturers of electrical wires and cables. The company was incorporated in 1978 under Geoelis Trading Company, the holding entity that also oversees Geoelis and Company Nigeria Limited and Star Gas Limited.
The group was founded by the late Chief Sir Geoffrey C. O. Ezebube and Dim Elias E. Nwosu, two pioneering businessmen who recognized the gap created when the Federal Government restricted cable imports to encourage local production. They hold 50% equity respectively.
The company opened its cable factory in 1978 and began full production in March 1981 at its facility located along the Nkpor–Umuoji Road in Nkpor, Anambra State. While its early operations relied on Chinese expatriates who managed technical and production units, these departments are now fully staffed and led by qualified Nigerian professionals.
Over the past four decades, Geoelis has earned a reputation for producing a wide range of cables across various sizes and specifications. Its product line covers domestic house-wiring cables, flexible automotive cables, aluminium service cables, bare conductors, industrial power cables and overhead line conductors used in national grid systems. These products serve a wide base of customers across domestic, industrial, automotive, telecommunication and national electrification projects.
Geoelis Cables has supplied wires and cables for rural and urban electrification projects at local, state and federal levels and continues to serve both the Nigerian and West African markets.
Its production standards conform to Nigerian Industrial Standards (NIS) and specifications recommended by the Cable Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (CAMAN). The company is a SON Gold Award winner for all product categories and maintains membership in MAN, CAMAN and the Onitsha Chamber of Commerce.
Note: While there are other notable wire and cable companies in Nigeria as confirmed from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), the founders of some of them could not be ascertained at the time of filing this article. The list is open to updates.
