₦airaland Forum

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.

the real test will come when crude process go up past $50. At that price petrol should be like N170. We'll see if government has the liver to take petrol price that high.

Fourwinds:
look im not docile.. The law didnt permit me to carry arms. I didnt vote this government but some people did may be because of kongo of rice and 5 naira. I saw what they did in first term so i wanted a different government

Who said anything about arms. Did anyone protesting in Yankee carry arms.

If Femi falana calls for one million man match to nass , he'll be lucky if 100 people show up.

kitsall123:
I understand you.

However, if this was the case alot of companies will not be dabbling into petroleum import.The subsidy payment makes the business profitable.

You need to know the racket and what it takes to get a petroleum import license.

Secondly if our refineries were operating at 60 to 70% capacity then it wont be a so much big deal if govt pays subsidy on import of about 30 to 40%.

If the govt was fair then they should have just giving multiple coy the license to operate modular refineries.But again,we have placed all this on the lap of one man.

We just keep going round in circles.

God help us.

Don't you get it. Many people have refinery licences, but it makes no sense because our regulated price is TOO LOW!!!!

Fourwinds:
sometimes i wonder how you people to make comments without giving the pros and cons.. Now you are talking about saving. Where does the saved money go? Private pockets. Tell me how has Nigerians fair from this oil which is God given natural resources.. Everything looted. Just like a man who married a woman that suffered with him until he became rich and he decided to spend the money on side chics. That is the senario of Nigeria government(looters) and its citizens

Managing the.money is a separate issue. What you are saying is like two wrongs.

And reason why govt gets away with it is because we are all docile. Only George Floyd was killed and the whole America rose up.

Yet our politicians commit far worse atrocities, but we all sit down and hope for our own opportunity to be as corrupt as them

lexander:
I thought the president promised during his campaign against Jonathan that he won't pay subsidy and that's why PMS was been sold for 143 naira ever since he entered Office.... So why am I now hearing about he has removed subsidy ? Is it possible to remove subsidy again after you've removed it the first time ? If he has just removed it then why was the price of petrol increase by almost 80% in his first term of ruling ?

Govt didn't remove subsidy the first time. When crude prices crashed then, the import price was lower than pump price. So for that period government was not paying any subsidy. Doesn't mean they removed it. But when crude prices went back up, subsidy came through the back door again.

cjrane:
But crude oil price is at about $40 dollars/ barrel!

We paid N97 naira for a litre of petrol when crude oil price was $120 dollars/ barrel. Now that the price has reduced to $40 dollars/ barrel, we are paying almost double for the product?

Pure wickedness on the part of the government!

Because the subsidy was far more then. Don't you get it!! Besides don't forget that naira has also devalued by about 100% from 199 to 400

Jetline:
You lived in the UK but you don't know how to make good analysis. Is the cost of living in UK and Nigeria the same? How about the minimum wage in both countries?Do you expect the price of a bottle water in UK and Nigeria to be the same?How about the cost of producing the bottle water in both countries...hope comparable? That's is why the pump price of petrol in UK will always be high.In summary,N143 /litre is way high for average NIGERIANS living on a minimum wage of N30,000,sorry,some states have not implement the new wage.ECONS 101.

The issue should actually be the wages in Nigeria not the price of petrol.

I've always said that if I were president of Nigeria,I'd sack 50% the civil service ,but double salaries for the remaining. Nigeria needs a vibrant middle class.

There is not point if 1mln people are earning N50k. Its better if 350k people are earning N150k. Because their purchasing power can attract industry.

One reason Toyota,Samsung, LG, etc can never produce massively in nigeriabis because there are not enough people to buy their products.

juvewalex:
Has oil price increased in world market or what's the local oil price increment based on if this report is true.

One will never understand Nigerian government and all these oil marketers with their dubious way

Yes it has actually. When petrol was reduced to N123, crude had fallen to $20 and now its back up to $41.