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If your story is true then I love David. I would do exactly the same thing he did.

David is good, Every Guy should be like David.



Why do I have this tingling feeling that your story is made up? After years on nairaland u want to make front front page. Let’s see if it works.

Nairaland and unknown actresses are like 5&6... who knows this one again. Everytime actress this, actress that. I have never seen any of them In movies, especially one small girl, one 17yr old that’s always making front page.

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Pls let’s all be very careful of these snakes. I read in a blog yesterday that there is shortage of antivenom and people are dying in the hundreds. Let’s be careful, it’s very hot and these reptiles and looking to cool themselves in our homes.

Nokia 3 only cost 45k and it’s better than all those Mkt devices.

4llerbuntu:
Which one is "you guys"?

Lmfao. Oga, I don't work for TSTV, neither am I marketing for them

But it seems you are admitting to working for DStv with this angle of talk. Please are you a shareholder or its your family business?

Please are you going to pay for anyone's TSTV decoder, perhaps that's why you are so upset?


If its not your money I'm going to use to buy, why cry more than the bereaved? You love me like Jesus so you don't want me to be waste my money?

Has it even occurred to you that some of us are actually interested in the decoder and not the service?

No one is stopping anybody from buying ur TSTV Mr.Tstv marketing manager.

Even if I am a staff of Dstv, I’ll be happy TSTV is coming into the market cos it will secure my job even further.

Start selling, enough of the social media hype.

[quote author=4llerbuntu post=61135130][/quote]Ha!!! U TSTV guys have finally found a loop hole in the contract. So u intend broadcasting in Arabic, u claiming Dstv owns English rights while u own Arabic? Well, I’m sure this will be taken straight to the original owners (sky sports) Dstv wouldn’t accept it. I’m very sure, no wonder u guys ain’t selling yet.

Seun, Lalasticlala and the rest of the mods will never push to front page. I’m starting to think TSTV has paid for advert or something. I only see pro TSTV news making front page.

Elxandre:
Interesting observations.

Forget the decoder cost though.

How much did you buy your MTN sim, and how much have you spent on it?
They'll always make the money back from subscription cost.

In an already saturated market? Bear in mind, Dstv will not be sleeping, they will surely bring in something new and will hold on to as much customers as they can. It will be interesting to see how subscriptions will bridge the huge deficit.

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By Obiora Egwuatu

TSTV MAY BE A FRAUD.
I promoted Tstv and was hoping that it could challenge DStv. It was launched in Abuja few days ago.
Read this:

Is TSTV A Fraud?

Another MMM Scam. Everybody beware.

These TSTV guys are actually reckless. I am really surprised that they brought the minister into this.
I believe that this is another MMM. Buyers beware. This is based on the following:
1. Bein sports acquired the EPL, Champions League and Laliga only for MENA (Middle East and North Africa). They do not have the right for Nigeria. DSTV owns the rights for Nigeria till 2019. You cannot give what you do not have. When a new service is launched, you have to wait for the next bidding round to have a shot at acquiring the rights. You cannot jump in the middle and start showing it. Things are not done that way in the PayTV world.

2.
A lot of channels listed like CNN, National Geographic, Discovery etc were acquired by DSTV on an exclusive basis for DTH in sub-saharan Africa by DSTV. Channels like Star Movies, MBC2, etc are only cleared for middle east and Asia. I really doubt that they have the rights to those channels. They may show it for one or two months before they are asked to take them off air.

3.
I check with a content aggregator on the cost per subscriber for these channels, assuming they can buy the rights, it came out the about 23 USD per month. That is excluding the sports channels. Based on today's naira exchange rate of 365 naira to a dollar, the cost is 8,395 Naira per subscriber. The content owners globally charge per month for their content. They do not charge per week or part of the month. The content owners dictate the terms. Nobody can pay 8395 Naira and charge 3000 Naira. Not possible.

4.
The cost of decoder package is as follows - decoder 25 USD, smartcard 4 USD, dish is 5 USD. Total is 34 USD (12410 naira). If we add shipping and clearing, you can get 15,000 Naira. To charge 5000 Naira for the package, you will need a lot of cheap money from bank to fund the decoder purchase. Buying 15,000 and selling 5000 sounds interesting to me.

5.
To do internet via satellite, you need VSAT equipment which is expensive compared to the dish/lnb you need to receive dstv. Minimum cost of vsat equipment should be not less than 50,000 Naira. If you use the traditional dish equipment, you can only receive. You cannot do internet with it. Unless TSTV will supply you 40,000 Naira vsat equipment for 5000 Naira.

6.
I went to lyngsat and checked the ABS 3A satellite, I did not see any information about any TSTV channels. Lyngsat is the database of all channels currently on satellite.

7.
When you launch a new DTH platform, you start with a test transmission. This allows you to work through some issues that might come up. It also gives people chance to see some of your channels to make sure they are real before committing their money. There is no test transmission from TSTV.


In conclusion, people should ask enough questions before investing their hard earned money. If it is too good to be true, it's probably is. Let this not be another MMM". Pls look before you leap.

Cc: lalasticlala

DStv VS TStv

The Untold and Unknown Truth and Reality about Pay-As-You-Watch TV

The budget-conscious segment of the pay-television market in Nigeria has been strident in its push for a pay-as-you-watch (PAYW) model. This push is encouraged by the use of the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model in the telecommunications sector, which also adopted the per-second billing system after an initial reluctance.

Pay-As-You-Watch, most pay-TV subscribers are convinced, will free them from monthly contracts and introduce greater flexibility in how they watch television. More than that, many are convinced that the model is already in operation in South Africa and want its adoption in Nigeria.

There is no such thing as pay-as-you-watch TV in South Africa. What exists is the monthly contract model like we have in Nigeria and other countries of the world.

Pay-as-you-watch is often confused with pay-per-view (PPV). Are they the same? No. The PPV model allows a subscriber to watch some special events, usually of the high-ticket variety in sports and entertainment, by paying for such events in addition to having an active subscription.

This means that if pay-per-view was available in Nigeria, a subscriber would need to pay his/her monthly subscription to a pay-TV provider and then pay an additional sum-usually very expensive-to watch a high-ticket event like the Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquaio fight for which boxing fans in the US paid $100 on top of their regular subscription. That is $100 for a two-hour fight.
In Nigeria, those who watched the fight on DStv’s SuperSport channel did so at no extra cost. Pay-per-view also does not exist in South Africa.

A question often asked is: Why can we not have a pay-as-you-go model for pay-TV as we have in telecommunications, where subscribers pay for what they use?

The answer is that both industries operate differently, very differently. How? Telecoms service providers do not buy content like pay-TV providers do because they are not in the business of providing entertainment content. What they buy is spectrum, for which they make a one-off payment.

Entertainment content is not bought on one-off basis. Pay-TV providers continually pay for content, with an upward review in cost when contracts for such expire. Going by this, the pay-as-you-go model in telecommunications does not fit the pay-TV industry. Pay-TV companies are, by and large, agents or vendors. They do not always own the content they broadcast. Content owners do not sell to vendors on pay-as-you-watch basis, an arrangement that does not accommodate the vending of such content on a pay-as-you-watch basis.

Pay-as-you-watch model, if ever adopted, will hinder rather than help the subscriber because of its prohibitive cost. It costs about N2,000 to watch a movie at a cinema, one movie.

If a pay-TV provider charges the same sum for a movie, subscribers are cooked! Now, if you find the movie you have gone to watch at the cinema unexciting after 40 minutes, do you get a refund? Ofcourse not. It is the same with a football match you have paid to watch at a stadium.
Pay-TV companies are also unable to go back to those who sell them content to demand a refund with a complaint that subscribers find their content tedious. Content contracts leave no room for such.
Subscribers often hinge their demand for a pay-as-you-watch model on the fact they are billed while not watching, probably when at work or out of town. The truth is that it cannot be otherwise.

The technology used in pay-TV broadcast transmits signals in just one direction: to the decoder. It is called downlink. It does not send back to the pay-TV provider. That way, the provider has no way of knowing whether or not a subscriber is watching or what he/she is watching. The only thing a provider can do is to block the smart card from accessing signal when subscription has expired.

Pay-as-you-watch is assumed to be a pocket-friendly usage billing model, but it is not. A semblance of that exists in the United Kingdom, where TV and broadband packages are tied together.
For example, BSkyB’s Now TV offers access to Sky’s seven sports channels as well as some entertainment and movie channels on smartphones, games consoles, tablets and similar devices. A subscriber need not have an active Sky subscription to enjoy the service because it is exclusively internet-based.

Payment, which is daily or weekly, depends on the package. For the entertainment package, the sum is £6.99 (N2,380) daily. The movie package costs £9.99 (N3,400) daily. The sports package costs £6.99 (N2,380) daily and £10.99 (N3,740) weekly. The model does not allow a subscriber to pay for only channel on any of the packages, as the content is sold in bundles. Now, add the cost to that of the data you need to view your favorite content and work out the cost. And in a country where internet connection can be relied upon to be unreliable, pay-as-you-watch is not as appealing as you assume.

Remember, you cannot demand a refund from the subscriber in the event of patchy internet service and you can consume the allocated data in the middle of a programme. For example, you can use up your data in less than 30minutes into a regular 90minutes football match.

The Choice is yours but choose wisely!!!

I hope our leaders tap into this and many more solid minerals. Mr Fayemi is not doing anything. For 2 yrs now, we haven't been able to produce or excavate any solid mineral for exportation. That man sld be sacked.

The guy no even laugh rara... Yahoo Yahoo something.

How Realistic is this Dream!!!!

The Dream.....The Country.......The Nation

COUNTRY: Oduduwa Republic

CAPITAL : Lagos
Population: Approx. 40million

CURRENCY: Awo

GDP: Approx. US$187Billions (Purchasing power parity)

LANGUAGES: Yoruba & English

GOVERNMENT: Unitary System

DEMONYM: Yorubian

AREA: 275 square kilometers

POINTS OF INTEREST: Olumo Rock, Cocoa House, Third Mainland Bridge,Murtala International Airport,Le Meridian,National Art Thearter,Alaba International Market,Tinubu Square, Arinta Waterfalls, River Osun, Ikogosi Warm Spring,Idanre Hills,Construction of the 17bn dollar Dangote refinery already underway in Lekki Lagos( to create 300,000 jobs and will have a refining capacity of about 650,000 barrels of crude a day and the great citadels of learning:UNILAG,OAU,UI,UNIBEN,UNILORIN,UNAB with Private and State owned institutions.

MINERAL RESOURCES: Oil, Gemstone, Kaolin,
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STATES: Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, EDO. Warri,Oya (carved out ,of Kwara), Ibadan (carved out of Oyo), Ijebu (carved out of Ogun), Ile-Ife (carved out of Osun), Okun (carved
out of Kogi), Lagoon (carved out of Lagos),Akoko State(carved out of Ondo state).
A nation where we all share things in common such as
language, food, culture, norms and beliefs, tradition etc.
A nation where corruption will have no place of abode, a nation where we watch one another's back The best legacy for the next generation
Dream The Dream
#Oduduwa Republic #ProudlyYorùbá #

Make a decision today. If you want to remain with the northern hegemony, you can stay, if you want to go with us can join us.
An idea whose time has come is like a fret train, anyone who tries to impede its motion will be crushed!

Oduduwa nation is a must!!!
"It is better that we move slightly apart and survive.It is much worse that we move closer and perish in the collision" - Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu.

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Working class lady who's ready for marriage.

Funny but true.

Motion sickness occurs because your brain is doing two things at the same time. Your brain is detecting motion and at the sametime u are reading or eating, u are most likely to experience motion sickness in such a scenario. The immediate solution is stop whatever u are doing and focus on the movement of the vehicle or ur journey. That sick feeling will stop almost immediately.
Try it the next time u experience motion sickness, it works like magic.

johnydon22:
An Igbo adage says The child who dances Igede does not know that Igede is the dance of the spirit, he who dances it is in trouble, he who plays it is in trouble and even he who watches is in trouble

In this recent show of political potboiler of the Nigerian bureaucratic arena. A political music of Igede is at play here.

-The child who dances (Saraki) is in trouble
-he who plays (FG/APC) is in trouble
-he who watches (Us the citizens/masses) are in the trouble.

We watch as it unfolds and thus it goes the circle of Igede trouble is about to unfold before us (Nigeria)

**Observe Mode**

Best comment I've ever read on Nairaland... thumbs up.

[quote author=HopeAtHand post=44571103

I know how politcs is played in NDelta, even when detrimental to collective good. This my post isnt far from the truth.[/quote]100% true.

halfricanadian:
Every body wants a peaceful relationship now?
very funny na now una don clear say not everything is gra gra
Op i wish u luck

I have never been a gragra person.

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This is definitely an end time daughter.

Walesadeyemi:
Its very simple, you're her plan B or C or D........ Most women do this so that when the choice of their heart fails them, they can fall back on the other plans in order not to end up at prayer city at age 35 looking for husband.

My advice: let her go Coz if you think she'll choose you later on if you show more affection, then you'll be thinking like a looser or if you think you want to 'chop and run' you'll still end up hurting yourself Coz no breakup is ever easy.

So Bro LET HER GO now Coz the longer you wait, the tougher it becomes.

Thanks bro... Like i said, she's been calling but i've been ignoring her calls.

Richiy:
I don't play this kinda games. If I don't like you, you will be the first to know.

Cool.

kaziblake:
She already told you she have a boyfriend so why are still disturbing her...leave her alone and look for another girl or else she will keep you as a side boo

Thank you ma.

Richiy:
This is the point where you pick up the bits of your heart and run.

I know this story. If she loves you, she'd run after you with willingness to give up EVERYTHING.

But, why I no dey meet this kin guys sef

Cos u are like her.

Idydarling:
op, I woulda sympathised with you, but the fact that you mentioned what you bought her (d bag, shoe and necklace. .. u even mentioned the brand sef )
imo op, I think you're a proud individual who keeps count of whatever good he has done to anoda.

...and yes, she's using u 4 the time being, in order not to feel too emotionally lonely now that the main boo is away. gd luck!

Don't be too quick to judge me, I was just elaborating.

I met this girl about a month ago, she walked into my office with her friends, they enquired if they could work as IT student. As soon as i set my eyes on her, i immediately took their IT letters and accepted three of them all because of her. They started working for me and i took special interest in her. After a week, i asked her out and she declined, i kept pestering for like a month before she said YES to me.
So we started dating, within a week, i bought her a Zanotti bag, a shoe and a gold necklace just so she could know i was serious.
The problem now is that we have never seen eye to eye, we keep arguing and quarrelling. She told me she has a boy friend who has left for South Africa, i have noticed that she truly is into this guy, she keeps using his pictures as social media profile picture, the guy's picture is on her wall in her room. The guy is main reason we quarrel cos i can't take it, i see it as an insult because i feel she should not make me see all those picture stuff.
Now, my dilemma is this, we fight and i promise never to call her again, she calls me aftr two days and i forgive her again. its been like tjis since we started. Why can't she leave me alone? why can't she just focus on the one she loves who is far away? Do u think she loves me and if she does why will she flaunt her boy friend's picture when m around.
The way she talks makes me feel she loves me, she keeps telling me to be patient.
I have a good job and i have so many girls around me but i love her so much.
ladies, what do i do? should i just forget her and move on? we argued this evening and i'm almost certain she will be back.
Advice me pls.

austin4real:
Bros eh, the gbagaun for dis ur report no get part two ooooo, you applied too many Yoruba english, the construction of the story was poor as you failed to capture your readers attention, any waiz s'ha I didn't expect anything more from an abeokuta reporter...

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Na my Padi u yab? The guy sabi pass u, trust me.