₦airaland Forum

obcpascal:
Poor State of major road behind Warri old airport, linking Water resources to Ugborikoko, Effurun. NDDC and Give. Okowa please help us

This is almost a good road by Nigerian standards.

But you people did road and left no space on either side for drainage?? This is your fault. As you lay your bed, so you lie in it.

AMvanquish:
Does Nollywood really pay that good

Ask me o! Only the babes are buying house and car?

Alejobs:
Nipost only needs to rebrand, they have the best reach for all logistics to every corner of Nigeria. I use them consistently for the last 5 years to deliver my laptop powerbank to customers everywhere in Nigeria. Needless i say that their price is the cheapest and i have not lost an item in those years. They always deliver!

They are the cheapest because they incur loses which government pays for. Which in turns means less money for infrastructure, education and health. Do we need 15k people to produce and sell stamps?? In this day and age of email, e signatures, scan etc?

If woodberry put the money in bitcoin, why can't the same woodberry be mandated to withdraw the money from same bitcoin?

After the owners of all bitcoin money have a way of getting their money out, otherwise why would they put it there.

Lara didn't smile or laugh in any picture

xjiggy:
Maybe u were too young to recall when MTN was claiming recharge cards could only be manufactured in S. Africa and they couldn't bill per second billing because it will cost them millions of Dollars to upgrade their systems. Then u had to pay #50 for a minute even if the call failed after 3sec. #20 for sms, minimum recharge card of #750 with one week validity and sim card for #34k. They even refuse interconnectivity with Econet in order to push their claim that they are "Every Where You Go".
Look at those prices compared to now and Factor in inflation and tell me that's not exploitation and that I'm lying. It was Glo that came all of a sudden and delivered per secon billing and #1 sim card (#10k sim card with #9,999 credit inclusive).

All what you said above doesn’t make them a monopoly. Was econet not also doing per minute billing at the time? It’s obvious your argument is just anti South Africa biased.

tomdon:
You're not thinking well.
It can be the lowest rate but if they don't bill on pay as you go basis, it becomes the highest.
If one subscribes 5k a month and only gets to sit watch for less than 100hrs in a month out of 720hrs, then it is cheating. Pay as you go is non negotiable

Spend your whole life watching tv then. In fact you can watch 1440hours of tv.

proeast:
I have been reading comments here and many of the posts are so annoying. You, just like several others who commented here, has a vested interest in DSTV. It is very apparent because you have strongly supported DSTV and giving all manner of support for them.

It is evident that Nigeria is probably the most football (precisely premiership) passionate country in Africa. DSTV even acknowledged that Nigeria is responsible for a good percentage of premiership subscribers in Africa but pays almost the same amount as the rest of Africa combined!

DSTV is a Shylock company that has reaped off Nigerians over the years, and they used marchiavelian ways to send competitors out of business.

SA does not have a football (premiership) "crazy" population like Nigeria. Even though they have higher GDP per capita, that advantage is definitely outstripped by Nigeria having a population that is about 4 times higher and a more passionate football following.

DSTV is so mean as a company that the margin of profit it allows dealers/agents selling their products is so little. Again, ask yourself, why would they increase their price astronomically at a time like this?

A company came all the way from SA to fleece us with reckless abandon yet we have Nigerians supporting them!?

Many of the comments here supporting DSTV with passion are from their employees, these ones are ready to sell their country just for the peanuts they are earning as salary. SMH!

Explain EXACTLY how we have been ripped off?

Population 4times as much doesn't amount to subscribers as you have seen the subscription stats on this thread already.

Explain exactly HOW we have been fleeced. Companies operate all over the world. Dstv have no reason why they cannot operate in Nigeria.

All sentiments in this post with no objective and transparent analysis.

thinkmoney:
Then they should put our circumstance into perspection.
It's only fare we pay for what we use.
This DSTV scheme is the same wit how PHCN don't like the prepaid metre

Who is going to compensate dstv for diesel they use to run their own services??

God1stson:
I disagree with u. Nigeria has what it take to moderate it's digital television space forget that we have not switched to full digitization.Anytime Nigeria gets its act right political wise. All these loopholes will be plucked

Tell us one thing that nigeria has ever got right.

thinkmoney:
I have heard this claim several times that we pay the lowest sub. I am beginning to doubtthe rationale though. The reason; a lot of household sub for one month but end up enjoying only a few days worth-many times not up to even 10days-because of our electricity situation. Example again is those that show ball. The pay hugely for a month but only show some sparsely games.
The calculation is that we are actually paying more for what we get compared to many other countries. If they feel this my assumption is not true, why can't they just make it 'pay as u go'. That would be the logical and fair thing to do

Lack of electricity is not dstv fault or problem

kikero:
Test running...when they were offering decoder., and saying they have launched service? And even had sales agents across the country.

TSTV was not serious, and they knew it. HiTV even did better than them when they started.

The guy behind TSTV should go and get more financing, and get better prepared. Not try to build brand on lies and wuru wuru practices.

Startines dey for people that don't like DSTV. Much cheaper.

In a saner clime, the guy behind tstv should be in jail set, for pirating bein signal.

Daddysidhan:
DSTV agent is what you are" stop trying too hard defending your pay master, what Nigerians want is not impossible. Pay per view is the best alternative for the working class family ' most families work 7am-5pm in Nigeria and the only time they enjoy family Union is 6pm -10pm so who loose.

Tell with proof where per per channel is being done.

Add a link to that site.

Oghenerobo2002:
And I'm sure Nigeria is their biggest market in Africa

Wrong again...

Don't mistake our 200mln population with ability to pay for things. We are a poor country. Lest you forget,poverty capital of the world.

kikero:
Actually, she is RIGHT.

Below is the cost of DSTV COMPACT BOUQUET in some selected African countries. All prices are in Naira/naira equivalent.



Nigeria: N6975
Zambia: N7,050
Angola: N7967
Kenya: N8,931
Ghana: N9,340
Liberia AND Sierra Leone :N9,700
South Africa: 9,098
Zimbabwe: N11,292

All prices are correct as at June 2020

Thanks o Jere!!

Many idiots here will still say that your lying that these are not the prices. Yet they won't carry their phone and browse dstv website for all those countries.

I say again, the problem is not with the pricing, its with your wages.

All this is just a smokescreen. Same way we keep petrol prices artificially low to make it seem like the people have a benefit, so they won't remember to take on the government.

Venezuela that we all used to say is oil producing nation and petrol is N30 per litre, where did it lead them? The country bankrupted itself during the crude oil price crash of 2015, to the extent that the country could not afford to import food and medicines. Their citizens had to be walking to the border of other countries to but them.

Thats like all of festac walking to benin border to buy medicine and food.

Una no dey watch International news for cnn?

Ogbuu101:
HiTV was frustrated out of business by DSTV using Nigerians and Nigerian banks.

Don't say what you don't know oga. Hitv overpaid for epl and subscriber numbers could not make up the numbers. Suicide to try that especially when dealing with our high interest rate environment. Hitv should have done better strategic planning.

While football is important to me, that's not all I watch on dstv. Hitv had little else for most people.

Fidelcashboy:
are you from South Africa ?why are you supporting evil?

Its about being objective and reasoning with a sound mind and applying basic economic and commercial principles. Not sentiment.

People just can't reason here!

Amazing how after we bash NASS for their corruption, you actually now think NASS has the masses at heart. Of all the issues we have DSTV is now the most important abi.

So if DSTV paid $100m for license 3years ago when $1 was 360 and we are charged on that basis, can the price remain the same if $ is now 460??

Only an idiot won't appreciate that licenses are paid to Premier League in USD, not Naira. Its just basic sense guys!


I keep saying that the problem with dstv, petrol, electricity, etc is because of our poor salaries ,not the pricing of these things.

Because Nigerians are docile and won't stand up to the government to address the real issues, they fight tooth and nail for prices of everything to remain stupidly and unreasonably low.

Face your government!!!

Xisnin:
No need to lie.
MTN never had a monopoly.
They are not even the first in Nigeria.

Again shocking how uneducated people can be.
Thanks for educating them that MTN never had a monopoly.

AsaSage:
Lol... It's hilarious how naive some people are, even at this point in time. Companies come up with several claims and skewed statistics every now and then. Sadly, people are quick to hop on the bandwagon without verifying such claims. An [color=black]independent research on DStv plans and prices across Africa[/color] is all one needs to unravel the truth.

Its shocking how intellectually docile many Nigerians can be. All some of the claims take is an Internet check of dstv prices where they operate.

All they use the phone for is intstagram and facebook

ridbell01:
thunder strike you when you don't have Dstv you can't understand when people complaining that they are exploiting us

Explain exactly how they are exploiting us. I would like to understand better.

NGELEBUBE:
you are a bigger fool than I thought, go to court and challenge d govt, multichoice operates pay as u go in SA but choose to extort Nigerians with incessant increments every now and then but u re here bleeding from ur anus fool!!

https://theeagleonline.com.ng/what-they-wont-tell-you-about-pay-as-you-watch-tv-dstv/#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20such%20thing,other%20countries%20of%20the%20world.&text=In%20Nigeria%2C%20those%20who%20watched,so%20at%20no%20extra%20cost.

shekauvsbuhari:
What is this one saying? You must be a homophobic south african or one of their girl friends. Dstv subs in SA is far cheaper than in nigeria and they do PAYG there. Even during de pandemic they gave them freebies over there, but here its increment. That was how mtn said per second billing is impossible until GLO screwed and exposed their lies and robbery. Robbers posing as investors. We wont stop until we screw multichoice totally.

This is the link to the dstv south Africa site

https://www.dstv.co.za/get-dstv/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9IX4BRCcARIsAOD2OB1UiksRXse6xokpE1coiOmEUa2iQfGnMnR-NsrYZYpgihOM2qr7OXYaAnf5EALw_wcB

The premium costs N28k (converted). So how is it cheaper? And nowhere in that site can I find that they do pay as you go.

2cribz:
Make electricity stable. Full sub go be 5k.
How can dstv be running on gen and diesel

Dstv signal is received via a dish from satellite.what does it have to do with local electricity supply??

fairfora:
Oh, they didn't die by drowning? Pardon me then.

But I can tell you there are a lot going on in government which many do not know anything about. Some people might just react blindly with emotions or sentiments but I don't care. I think I can explain briefly to you why i made those previous comments because i could see you had a few idea of safety.

When Gov fashola was in office, my UK-based friend came home to invest in lagos sea transport. He presented his proposal asking for just one route to enable him ferry 900 lagos passengers per trip across the lagoon. They had a deep conversation with him and the proposal almost sailed through when it was hijacked by one of them in government. Another company modified it and it was approved and the rest was history. We only heard the project had been executed by another company in the news with my friend's ideas being showcased by this company . Unfortunately, the said company could only afford a 22-passenger boat. My fried went back to the UK and nothing was done about it till Fashola left power. When Gov Ambode came to power, he came back to present his proposal to him and he welcomed the idea. But this time, he had secured patent rights with legal backing such that, nobody would plagiarize or modify it without due permission.

In a nut shell, the government of Ambode did not do much but promised to invite him in due course as it would be his second term agenda(but ambode only did 4 years). This proposal contained 2 major sea transport packages...one was to ferry over 100 cars at a time accross the lagoos and second, to ferry 900 passengers across the lagoon per trip as done in a renown company where he works in the UK as Manager. 2 different UK financiers were willing to invest their money in it. The following were among the on-board equipment and personnel:

Resuscitation and Emergency Kits
Modern Life jackets with reflectors
SOS kits and Panic Buttons
AEDs
First Aid Section
2 Drs on board and to be paid per shift alongside security personnel to ensure passengers safety. fare per trip was very good when compared to driving on land.

The ferries would be brand new and fully insured and this would have created jobs too. Sanwoolu invited my friend and had lengthy discussions with him. His proposal was almost getting to the stage of approval when my friend called and said, this people aren't ready for business. I asked why and he said they were discussing a sharing formula which he was not comfortable with, despite that he would be the one to finance it 100% , pay the necessary dues and taxes and he had to back off. That was the beginning of this year before covid-19 pandemic issues disrupted the whole thing. I hope he's called back.

I have gone to jetties with him on inspection b4. we also did an aerial survey together in a copter once. Among the boats seen that day, only one had passengers wearing life jackets...about 6 passengers. i guess it belongs to a popular oil company in lagos because i saw the logo on it. All others didn't observe the safety rules. This is not the first time a mishap would happen in lagos and claim lives and if you are resident here, you would understand. Sea transport is very safe, night or day but negligence and greed of our people always cause most of the mishaps. We do not have iceberg or physical blockades in our sea. if all is put in place, no single mishap would be recorded in years.

I can easily believe this story. About two to three years ago when Ambode was making a lot of noise about water transport and just as that jetty at falomo was being completed, I went to their office at falomo to make enquiries. I was thinking of pulling a few friends together to start this ferry business. I figured it would be a good business, for many middle class people to get to their offices in marina, vi and apapa.

I collected form and made enquires ,but it was clear that government wanted to run things by themselves instead of giving free, innovative and creative license to entrepreneurs. Government likes to try to do things by itself, because by so doing it can give favours to their political friends to corner this route and that route etc, instead of allowing pure innovators to operate within a regulatory framework that would be fair to all.

Part of my governance plan for the industry was that LASWA would have an emergency boat that all operators would subscribe to. In the event of a mishap in the water, the pilot of the sjnking boat would send a distress signal for the emergency boat to come.

Here we are today. As always government is incompetent in simple things. This is what the private sector would have thought of and implemented ,which would have given confidence to grow the industry. After this mishap, a lot of people will be put off using the the boats.

xjiggy:
I don't know why these substandard boats keep breaking the laws. They've been told not to move at night due to the hazardous waters and poor visibility yet they'll not comply. Sometimes they overload it and life jackets don't go round. Some passengers too will ignore safety precautions to the detrimentof others. We're just too reckless in this country. We do not place much value on life.

To be honest probably everyone involved is to blame here. From the boat operator moving at night, to the passengers who agreed to use a boat in darkness, to the government that doesn't have good oversight.

jarawa:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/flights-resumption-no-more-vip-consideration-at-airports-says-sirika.html

We shall see about the no aides to VIP's in due course. Will the minister man all the entrances to the terminals himself? The security personnel at the gates will not have the liver to deny a Senators aide access.

Monday60655:
Government of deceit. Even when oil price keep on dropping.

You dey read news at all. Crude has gone up from $20 to $41

sinkhole:
I can't just understand some fight that people used to fight o!
Government said subsidy on fuel has been removed and hence, the sector deregulated, what then do we expect? Price of fuel could climb to #200 or drop to #100 per litre, it is market forces that will be determining it.
What I think the NLC and Co should be fighting for is the proper use of tax payer's money, such as demand for good roads, good and well equipped hospitals, quality and affordable education for all, etc.

The only time NLC has spoken in the last 10 years has only been on issue of petrol price hike. All the other issues in the country doesn't concern them.

NLC should go and sit down jare.

MetaPhysical:
This Chairman Nami will soon start taxing people for using uber.

He set too high expectation to discredit Fowler. Now that he cant meet those goals he is arm twisting and robbing people to bring in revenue.


Very soon we go pay tax for eating at buka. If you use condom to fvck you will pay tax. For those who refuse to buy condom if you pour inside and go buy morning after pill you go pay tax.

The uber one is already coming o. I hear they are looking at taxing technology transactions like uber, Netflix etc

Made4naijalove:
Beats my imagination that 'big people' contract the disease more than the hustling people out there

Are the hustling people online. Who follows them on Instagram and twitter? That's why it appears so. Trust me, many of them are dying, but nobody is hearing.

Fourwinds:
having people to march is not the problem . It is the same Nigerians that will insult those who are prepared to do it. Remember BBOG

Then that is our problem. Then if we can't confront the real issue then no point complaining. We have been bound to the philistines and instead of doing something about it, we don't.

Fourwinds:
so how will people survive when they buy a litre of fuel for 500 naira and above. Consider transportation. If you are earning welll and living fine. Know there are thousands and millions Nigerians that didnt eat two times today even some didnt eat. Will they no move(travel) a distance of 6km within their state. Do you recommend trekkin for such distance almost every day

The solution to that is that wages need to go up. And that's why Nigerians should rise up instead of being docile. We should stop begging for the crumbs of subsidy and demand wages that enable people to eat at the table.