Iroko TV Boss’ Dad Shows Up 33 Yrs After

For 33 years and two months, Jason Chukwuma Njoku, Nigerian internet tycoon and founder of highly successful online television platform, IROKO TV, has lived without knowing his biological father. But last week, the young tech entrepreneur went on the Twitter to announce an attempt by his absentee dad to reunite with him after more than three decades of abandonment.

“After 33-years. Having never met the man. My dad is now calling trying to have a conversation. #nothavingit,” Njoku tweeted via his Twitterhandle @JasonNjoku.

Although Njoku has kept the name of his estranged dad to himself, he is not too keen to accept the man.

We learnt that Njoku, excited by the growth of his seven-month old son, Jason Jnr., from his Nollywood actress wife, Mary Remmy, and pained by the void of not having such father figure, has shifted to his blog to pour out his emotions as well as post his views on “Fatherhood and Success”.

Njoku was born in Britain and raised by his single mother in a council flat in southeast London. He left London to study Chemistry at the University of Manchester, where he met and shared a flat with Bastian Gotter, a classmate from Germany who later partnered him to set up IROKO TV.

In 2012, the company launched IROKO TV, 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. It has over 110 employees in offices in Lagos, London and New York.

In the same year, Forbes Africa named Njoku 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.

Source : P.M.NEWS