True Chain Infrastructure Company (TCIC) is the Nigerian holding company under which a portfolio of operationally interconnected, legally and financially separable companies is being built to remove the binding constraints of road freight logistics in Africa’s largest economy.
Why we exist
Nigerian road freight carries the overwhelming majority of the nation’s goods, yet the industry has been held back by six binding constraints: cargo insecurity, fragmentation of the carrier market, the recycling of rogue drivers between unsuspecting employers, a chronic skills deficit, the absence of corridor infrastructure, and an urgent energy and emissions imperative. No single operator can solve these alone. They require industry-level infrastructure, and that is what we build.
Our companies
True Chain Technologies is the group’s operating technology company, delivering three deeply integrated services: the True Chain Registry for driver vetting and integrity, the True Chain Security Operations Centre for telematics, monitoring and rescue, and the True Chain Collaborative Logistics Network for shared freight coordination.
True Chain Institute is the group’s educational company: an FRSC-accredited academy producing professional drivers, technicians and supply chain talent, with every certification written to the graduate’s permanent True Chain ID.
True Chain Truck Transit Park is the group’s corridor infrastructure company: secure parking, warehousing, driver welfare, workshops and LCNG refuelling across the principal long-haul corridors.
Medessy Enterprises, the group’s heritage operation, is an indigenous 3PL that has served FMCG multinationals for over 11 years with a fleet of more than 220 vehicles, and is the promoter of the group’s development program.
One integrated chain
The group’s defining design choice is integration. A driver is trained at the Institute, verified on the Registry, monitored by the SOC, coordinated by the CLN and supported at the Transit Parks, and one record, the True Chain ID, follows that driver through every link. Trip telemetry strengthens the integrity record; behavioural analytics route drivers back to targeted training; coordinated trips run only on verified drivers and monitored trucks. Each company is stronger because the others exist.
Mission
To build the trusted infrastructure, digital, human and physical, that makes African road freight safe, efficient and globally competitive.
Vision
A continent where every shipment moves on a true chain of verified people, secured assets and connected corridors.
Our values
- Integrity first. We build systems where trust is evidence-based and verifiable, starting with our own conduct.
- Safety as standard. Every design decision begins with the safety of drivers, cargo and communities.
- Built to integrate. Our companies are designed as one chain; collaboration is our architecture, not an afterthought.
- Operate, then automate. Our technology is built from real operating experience, not assumptions.
- Impact that is audited. Jobs, safety, emissions: if we claim it, we measure it.
Governance
The group is moving from owner-managed governance to a board-supervised architecture designed to satisfy the requirements of institutional investors and development finance partners: an independent non-executive chair, independent directors, and dedicated Audit and Risk, Nomination and Remuneration, and ESG and Impact committees, supported by a formal board charter, code of conduct, whistle-blower policy and anti-bribery framework.
Impact
Our work is structured against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with measurable indicators for road safety (SDG 3), decent work and workforce formalisation (SDG 8), resilient infrastructure and innovation (SDG 9), and climate action through fleet fuel transition and the elimination of empty kilometres (SDG 13).