JOHANNESBURG — With the bulky frame of an NFL linebacker, iRoko Partners CEO Jason Njoku was hard to miss as he paced the hall at the Discop Africa conference in Johannesburg last winter. If all eyes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind a high-security gate on a side road off the frenetic Apapa Oworonshoki Expressway, in the Anthony Village district of ...

Jason Njoku, co-founder and CEO of IrokoTV, has offered a rare and brutally honest look into the trials, miscalculations, and eventual retreat of his once-ambitious streaming venture in Nigeria. In a ...

U.S. investment banner Rise Capital is one of the firms backing the expansion plans of iROKOtv, the Africa-based movie platform for Nigerian movies. By Stuart Kemp LONDON – VOD platform iROKOtv, the ...

Only yesterday German e-commerce incubator and cloning giant Rocket Internet and MTN partnered to develop internet businesses in Africa through Africa Internet Holding (AIH), a vehicle to develop ...

French television company Canal+ has acquired the ROK film studio from VOD company IROKOtv for an undisclosed amount. Founded by Jason Njoku in 2010 — and backed by $45 million in VC — IROKOtv boasts ...

iROKOtv, the world’s largest online distributor of Nigerian movies, has raised $8 million in venture capital from a group of international investors. According to Njoku, iROKO has raised $21 million ...

The wait is over as the much talked about anticipated series "Husbands of Lagos," has premiered on iRoko TV. In Lagos; a melting pot of business, politics, power and love, the city that never sleeps, ...

Innov8tiv.com reports that CEO of iROKO Partners, one of Africa’s top-funded startups and the machine behind iROKOtv, a leading platform for African films globally, will be moving its base of ...

LAGOS: The African Internet TV platform iROKOtv.com is adding to its extensive Nollywood catalogue with the addition of Hollywood, Bollywood, telenovela and Korean programming. The service, which is ...

Jason Njoku, CEO of IrokoTV, has reflected on the challenges the company encountered in Nigeria’s movie streaming industry, ultimately describing their $100 million investment in the local market as a ...

Behind a high-security gate on a side road off the frenetic Apapa Oworonshoki Expressway, in the Anthony Village district of mainland Lagos, stands a nondescript three-story concrete building. The ...