Come interact with Jason Njoku as he shares his business and life experiences, at the February Speaker Series.
Venue: Bogobiri House. 9, Maitama Sule Street, off Raymond Njoku Street, off Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Date: Saturday 9th February
Time: 1pm
This event is FREE to attend.
Jason Njoku is CEO and Co-Founder of iROKO Partners. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 2005 with a Chemistry degree. After several failed business attempts in the world of online media, he moved back home with his mum at the age of 29. Whilst back at home, he observed his mum’s love of watching Nollywood films. A search for a reliable source of films online yielded nothing, and so the idea to stream Nollywood films online was born. In 2010, Jason moved to Lagos and set-up iROKO Partners.
Nollywood Love was the company’s first platform, streamed on YouTube. To-date, iROKO Partners is YouTube’s largest partner in Africa. In 2012, the company launched iROKOtv, a platform to stream Nollywood movies. The site has recorded over 800,000 registered users and today, 14 million hours of movies have been watched in 178 countries around the world.
iROKO Partners was also one of the first companies in the Nigerian digital music scene, launching iROKING in 2011. The platform has almost 100,000 registered users who have access to over 35,000 tracks by 400+ artists.
Across all the iROKO Partners’ platforms, 193,000,000 minutes of entertainment are consumed every month.
In 2012, Forbes Africa named Jason as one of Africa’s Top Young Millionaires to watch. He has also been named as one of London’s Top Black Men of Power in Black Enterprise Magazine.
iROKO Partners has over 110 employees in offices in Lagos, London and New York.
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90 Minutes Speaker Series is a monthly forum where leading business people and entrepreneurs are interviewed as they share their business and life experiences with young professionals. It provides a unique and invaluable insight into the lives of people who have succeeded in their chosen field and serves as a motivation for others to pursue their ambitions.
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This article was first published on 26th January 2013
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