A bill seeking to regulate tariff of digital satellite service providers was on Wednesday rejected by several participants at the public hearing on the bill. The bill, sponsored by Unyime Idem (PDP, Akwa-Ibom), seeks to give the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the powers to regulate the tariff charged by digital television platforms. The bill proposed that NBC “Regulates and review through broadcasting codes the tariff being charged by the digital satellite television services broadcasting in Nigeria and other subscription policy for subscribers.” If passed, digital satellite service providers like DSTV, StarTimes, TSTV, GOTV and others will have their subscriber fees regulated. It was first introduced to the House on March 19, 2020 and was consolidated with other NBC bills on the ...
Image sourced from The Vanguard Nigeria MultiChoice has revealed that Groupe Canal+ SA – a French media company – has acquired 6.5% of Group’s ordinary shares. The African entertainment company emphasised that Canal+ would have to accept reduced voting rights of shares as it’s a foreign entity. “Shareholders should take note that, pursuant to a provision of the MultiChoice memorandum of incorporation, MultiChoice is permitted to reduce the voting rights of shares in MultiChoice (including MultiChoice shares deposited in terms of the American Depositary Share (“ADS”) facility) so that the aggregate voting power of MultiChoice shares that are presumptively owned or held by foreigners to South Africa (as envisaged in the MultiChoice memorandum of incorporation) will not exceed 20% of the tota...
BBNaija Lockdown winner Laycon has been presented his cash prize and car for winning the reality TV show. On Sunday 27th September 2020 Big Brother Naija Lockdown season 5 came to an end after 71 days. Laycon was declared the winner of this year’s BBNaija among the top 5 finalists. Multichoice organisers of the Big Brother Naija, have done a formal presentation of the grand prize to the BBNaija winner Laycon. Laycon received a cheque for N30 million and an SUV car from Innoson Motors. Other BBNaija housemates were present at the prize presentation. See the clips below. Share this: You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the...
Image sourced from The Vanguard Nigeria MultiChoice South Africa has revealed that CEO Mark Rayner has resigned – “it is with great regret that today we announced the departure of Mark Rayner from MultiChoice, effect 30 November 2020.” “Having been part of the MultiChoice family for the past 14 years leading in various parts of the group, Mark Rayner has now decided to further his journey outside the group.” MyBroadband reports that Rayner began working at the company in 2007 where “he served as the CFO of DStv Mobile until September 2008, after which he took the helm at the company”. The African entertainment company ads that an announcement on Rayner’s successor will be made in the near future. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_f46.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_f46.td-a-rec-img img{ marg...