Northside Music Limited
A Lagos company named as co-defendant in Nigerian federal prosecutions over alleged diversion of P-Square royalty income.
- Based in
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Founded
- 2015
- Founders
- Contested on the record. Peter Okoye's court testimony, per trade press, names Jude Okoye and Jude's wife Ifeoma Okoye as the founders and directors, and separately states a shareholding of Ifeoma 80 per cent / Jude 20 per cent. A Corporate Affairs Commission certificate produced by the defence and reported from the Ikeja courtroom shows the reverse split, Jude 80 per cent / Ifeoma 20 per cent, and Peter accepted under cross-examination that his own earlier testimony on this point was incorrect. The presiding judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi, separately upheld an objection to the admissibility of the CAC documents tendered. No CAC record was independently pulled by this desk; Nigeria's CAC has no public API and no manual search was run for this record. Which figure is correct is not established on any source read.
- Website
- northsidemusic.com
Northside Music Limited is a Nigerian company registered in Lagos, reported founded in 2015. It has no independently sourced description of ordinary trading activity; every account of what it does comes from Nigerian court proceedings rather than from the company’s own disclosure.
The company is a co-defendant, alongside Jude Okoye personally, in a seven-count money-laundering charge brought by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos (arraigned 26 February 2025), and in a separate four-count charge at the Special Offences Court, Ikeja (arraigned 4 March 2025). The charges allege that royalty income belonging to the P-Square catalogue, the recording duo of Peter and Paul Okoye, was converted into Northside Music between 2016 and 2023. Ownership of the company is itself disputed in the underlying court testimony: Peter Okoye has testified to one shareholding split between Jude and Ifeoma Okoye, while a defence-produced Corporate Affairs Commission certificate shows the reverse split, and the trial judge upheld an objection to that certificate’s admissibility.
No suit number, CAC filing or primary charge document has been independently verified by this desk; the record above rests on Nigerian trade press covering the hearings and the EFCC’s own arraignment announcement. The charges are allegations before the court, not findings.