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IROKING Limited

Dissolved UK company that ran iROKING.com, a Lagos-run African music streaming service, from 2011 to 2018.

Based in
London (registered office); Lagos (operations), United Kingdom
Founded
2011 (company incorporated 22 November 2011); founder Jason Njoku has separately dated the IROKING product to May 2011
Founders
Jason Chukwuma Njoku, Bastian Gotter

IROKING Limited operated iROKING.com, a music-streaming and digital-distribution service for Nigerian and wider African music, run out of Lagos under a UK-registered holding company. It was incorporated in the UK on 22 November 2011 by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter, the same founders behind the IROKO group’s iROKOtv video service, and was dissolved on 27 March 2018.

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