Juwon Lawal
Nigerian businessman and energy executive
About Juwon Lawal
Juwon Lawal (born 22 October 1979) is a Nigerian businessman and energy executive. He founded Africent Group, renamed Crestal Group in 2025, and serves as its group chief executive officer and as chief executive officer of JuWonOil LLC.
Early life and education Lawal is from Yagba East Local Government in Kogi State. As a teenager, he worked in his father’s palm-kernel-oil business during school holidays and weekends. In a later interview, Lawal said that vessels used by the company were lost in January 2010, after which the business was restructured.
S8 Contractors & Company Limited later continued some of the activities formerly undertaken by ABD Fuels, focusing on logistics-support services for the petroleum industry.
From Africent to Crestal Group In 2017, Lawal established Africent Group as a holding company for businesses operating in energy, maritime services, agro-processing and other sectors.
In November 2024, AfricentOCL UK was renamed JuWonTankers UK Limited. The company’s registered activities covered energy brokerage, shipping and transport-support services. Ship & Bunker reported that the company was the exclusive Texas distributor of Q8 marine lubricants.
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