A company called JONZING WORLD ENTERTAINMENT LTD, number 13751901, was dissolved in England and Wales on 6 February 2024 by voluntary strike-off. Its directors asked for it. It had filed dormant accounts, it had never filed anything else of substance, and twenty days after it disappeared from the register, Universal Music Group announced a majority investment in Mavin Global.
Nothing changed hands. A strike-off is not a sale. What it does is fix a date on which a named legal person stopped existing, and that date sits oddly against Rema’s release metadata, which has carried the words “Jonzing World Entertainment” in the phonogram credit on nine distinct titles issued since. The most recent, “Oh No”, came out on 11 September 2026, 948 days after the UK company ceased to exist. The full deal record, with every source and every caveat, is filed here.
What the filing history says, in order#
The company was incorporated on 18 November 2021 with model articles and a statement of capital of GBP 100. Registered office: 53 Tideslea Path, London SE28 0LY. One SIC code, 90010, performing arts.
It then filed almost nothing. A confirmation statement made on 17 November 2022 “with no updates”, which is the registry’s own phrase for a company telling the registrar that nothing about it has changed. One set of accounts, form AA, accounts for a dormant company, made up to 30 November 2022 and filed late on 10 August 2023.
Then the exit. Form DS01, application to strike the company off the register, 14 November 2023. First gazette notice, 21 November 2023. Final gazette, dissolved via voluntary strike-off, 6 February 2024. Eighty-four days from application to dissolution, which is the ordinary run. There is no restoration application and no post-dissolution filing of any kind.
A dormant company is not a label#
Dormant is a defined status, not a description of mood. It means the company recorded no significant accounting transaction in the financial period. On the public record, this one recorded none up to 30 November 2022, and it filed no accounts after that, so its dormancy is evidenced to that date and no further.
That matters because of what a label company normally looks like on a register. A company that owns masters tends to show turnover, or intercompany balances, or a registered charge where a financier has taken security over the catalogue. None of that appears here. There is no charge, no assignment, no allotment beyond incorporation, no change of name.
This is evidence of an absence of transactions. It is not proof that the company held no assets, and this piece does not claim that it held none. What can be said is that the document trail contains nothing that would place a master recording inside it.
One person on the register#
The company had a single director and a single person with significant control, and they were the same individual: Mr Charles Chukwudi Enebeli, date of birth October 1986, Nigerian nationality, resident in England, correspondence address the same Tideslea Path property. He was notified on the day of incorporation and held 75 per cent or more of the shares, 75 per cent or more of the voting rights, and the right to appoint and remove directors. Companies House control bands stop at “75% or more”, so a large majority and outright ownership look identical on the page. His personal appointments record shows this as his only UK directorship.
D’Prince, the founder of Jonzing World, is publicly reported to be Charles Enebeli, born 23 October 1986. The register redacts the day of birth and publishes the month and year, which match. The name matches. That is a name-and-date match, which is the strongest identification a public register permits, and it is not the same thing as a document saying the two are the same person. No document obtained says so, and this piece does not assert it as fact.
The credit that outlived the company, and predates it#
Rema’s catalogue on Apple returns 103 collection entries. Forty-four of them carry Jonzing World Entertainment in the phonogram line, almost always in the same form: Mavin Global Holdings Ltd and Jonzing World Entertainment as the ℗ owners, with distribution attributed to Interscope Records and UMG Commercial Services. This desk’s record of who owns Rema’s masters sets out that credit and the contradiction between Universal naming Virgin Music Group as his international distributor while the catalogue names Interscope.
Ten of those entries, covering nine distinct titles, were released after 6 February 2024: “BENIN BOYS” with Shallipopi in June 2024, “HEHEHE” in July 2024, the album “HEIS” days later, then “Baby (Is it a Crime)”, “Bout U”, “KELEBU”, “FUN”, “TEA” and “Oh No” through to this month.
Before reading too much into that, read the other end of the timeline. The same credit string appears on Ruger releases from 20 January 2021, ten months before UK company 13751901 was incorporated, in the longer form “Jonzing World Entertainment Limited under exclusive licence to Promised Land Recordings Limited”. That run stopped on 13 December 2023. Ruger’s first release after the dissolution, on 1 March 2024, credits Blown Boy Ent., T.Y.E and EMPIRE, with no Jonzing anywhere. This desk has separately documented that licensee structure.
A credit that starts ten months before a company is incorporated and continues for two and a half years after it is dissolved is not tracking that company. A phonogram line is a claim of ownership in a recording. It is not a company number, and it does not disambiguate between same-named entities in different jurisdictions. D’Prince has publicly said he registered Jonzing World with Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission in 2018, three years before the London company existed. That would be a different legal person entirely.
What Universal actually bought#
The twenty-day interval is a fact about a calendar, not evidence of a causal link, and this piece draws no line between the two events. What the documents do settle is the perimeter.
Universal’s announcement of 26 February 2024 describes a majority investment in Mavin Global, names Rema as a Mavin artist, and does not mention Jonzing World or D’Prince anywhere. No price was disclosed then and none has been disclosed since. The merger notification filed with Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission a month later states, in the notifying parties’ own words, that in Nigeria Mavin only owns and controls MG Entertainment Nigeria Limited. On the UK register, UMG SPV Holdings Limited was notified as the controller of Mavin Global Holdings Limited on 31 May 2024, 115 days after Jonzing’s UK company was struck off.
On the documents, no Jonzing entity was inside the acquisition. Universal took control of Mavin. The other name on Rema’s copyright line was not part of it, and it still appears on his records today.
What this means for artists#
Three practical points follow, and they generalise well beyond one Benin City artist.
First, the name in your copyright line is not a legal entity until you can attach a registration number to it. Metadata fields are typed by hand, copied forward release to release, and almost never audited. A label name can persist in a ℗ string for years after the company behind it has been wound up, renamed, or replaced by a different company in a different country. If your royalty statement, your split sheet or your contract names a counterparty by brand alone, you do not yet know who you are dealing with. Ask for the number and the jurisdiction.
Second, when a major invests in the label you are signed to, check the perimeter and not the press release. A regulatory filing has to say which companies are being acquired, because a competition authority will read it. A press release does not. In this case the filing named exactly one Nigerian company, and it was not the one that shares a credit line on the artist’s biggest records.
Third, if you are the artist in a two-label credit, the structural question is which of the two holds the agreement with you. Where an artist appears on two labels’ shared ℗ line and only one of them is acquired, the unacquired side does not vanish. Its rights, whatever they are, survive the transaction untouched. That can be an advantage or a trap, and the only way to know which is to read your own paper.
What could not be established#
Whether UK company 13751901 is the same undertaking as the Jonzing World registered in Nigeria could not be established. Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission search returns an HTTP 403 behind a challenge page and publishes no open data interface, so a Nigerian company of that name can be neither confirmed nor excluded from a server. No Nigerian filing was read for this piece.
Whether the UK company ever held any interest in any recording could not be established, and nothing on its file suggests it did. Why it was incorporated in November 2021 and struck off two years later could not be established, because a DS01 states no reason. What Universal paid for Mavin has never been disclosed. Whether the Jonzing credit currently on Rema’s releases refers to a live Nigerian company, to a dissolved British one, or to neither, is not answerable from any document on the public record.
Companies House advanced search matches current names only. A company that once traded under a Jonzing name and has since been renamed would not have surfaced here.