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The Group

An institution built where content, technology and audiences meet.

Meridian Media Group Limited holds the strategy, governance and institutional capability that its operating companies draw on as they scale.

01Group proposition

One Group. Three Capabilities.

Meridian Media Group is the institutional layer above three specialist operating companies working across journalism, streaming and media technology. Each has a defined mandate; together they form a single chain from content to audience.

01

Journalism & Information

NN24 Live

Reporting, verification and editorial capability — the creation and organisation of information.

02

Streaming & Audiences

TV7

Programming, distribution and audience relationships across Britain, Africa and the diaspora.

03

Technology & Infrastructure

APICo

Media orchestration, accessibility and the technology layer that carries content to audiences.

Meridian holds the group functions that no single operating company should carry alone: strategy, governance, capital framework, intellectual-property direction and partnerships.

02Our thesis

Our Thesis

Media markets are converging. Content, distribution, accessibility, technology and audience experience can no longer operate as isolated functions.

Meridian develops specialist businesses at the points where these systems meet.

Our operating companies retain distinct mandates while benefiting from shared strategic direction, governance, intellectual property, partnerships and institutional capability.

03Brand & geography

Two Worlds. One Line.

Meridian is built around the line connecting Africa and its global diaspora — the movement of news, culture, technology and ideas between both.

London. Africa. The Global Diaspora.

LONDONAFRICAGLOBAL DIASPORA

04Our story

Built from more than three decades in media.

Meridian's present strategy has developed from a long working history in broadcast engineering, television news and media entrepreneurship across Africa and the United Kingdom.

  1. 01

    Education & Professional Formation

    Kaduna Polytechnic · De Montfort University · BBC Training & Development

    Alumnus of Kaduna Polytechnic and De Montfort University, with professional broadcast training at BBC Training & Development, Wood Norton, Evesham.

  2. 02

    Broadcast Engineering & Television

    NTA · ITV · Bloomberg Television

    Career foundation in broadcast engineering and technical operations across Nigerian and British television.

  3. 03

    Broadcast Technology

    Snell & Wilcox

    More than two years with the international broadcast-equipment company, including representing Snell & Wilcox at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany as a Customer Service Engineer supporting broadcast-equipment customers.

  4. 04

    Media Entrepreneurship

    NN24

    Founding and development of NN24 as Nigeria’s pioneering 24-hour television news operation.

  5. 05

    News Central TV

    Development of another pan-African television venture.

  6. 06

    TV7

    Streaming and diaspora-focused media.

  7. 07

    APICo

    Media technology, accessibility and infrastructure innovation.

  8. 08

    Meridian Media Group

    The institutional group structure bringing these media and technology businesses together.

This timeline describes the wider media heritage behind the Group. It is not a corporate history of Meridian Media Group Limited, which was incorporated in England and Wales as a distinct legal entity — see Company Information for registration details.

05Institutional posture

How we build.

Meridian is structured as an institution rather than a single venture, with the disciplines that long-term media businesses require.

01

Editorial Integrity

Accuracy, verification and independence in how information is gathered and published.

02

Technological Capability

Building the orchestration, accessibility and workflow technology media now depends on.

03

Accessibility & Inclusion

Designing media so that it can be understood and used by the widest possible audience.

04

Long-term Institutional Development

Structure, governance and patience — building businesses intended to outlast their founders.