by Thinus Ferreira
MultiChoice Nigeria is doing another price hike for DStv subscribers and GOtv subscribers in Nigeria from May 2023 with increases up to 18.6% as the country battles with runaway inflation.
Shockingly, MultiChoice Nigeria is hitting poorest pay-TV consumers the hardest and with the biggest increase, with GOtv Lite subscribers on the cheapest package, seeing a whopping 22.2% increase from 900 naira to N1 100 from May.
Nigeria is battling a stagnant economy and antagonistic political policies and attacks against multinational companies driving them away, making them reluctant to invest and operate in the country, and making them opt not to consider Nigeria as an investment destination.
Over the past few years, Nigeria's government has become openly hostile towards MultiChoice Nigeria and MultiChoice Africa with an increase in legal against MultiChoice in the country, as well as toxic and damaging utterances by Nigerian politicians and regulators who continue to scapegoat the pay-TV operator.
MultiChoice Nigeria last increased prices in March 2022 and says the latest price increase is "due to the rising costs of business operations" in the West African country.
DStv Nigeria is hiking the DStv Premium subscription fee from N21 000 to N24 000, an increase of 14.3%.
DStv Compact Plus will increase by 16.5% from N14 250 to N16 600.
DStv Compact will increase by 16.6% from N9 000 to 10 500 naira, while DStv Confam subscribers who paid N5 300 will now pay 17% more at the new monthly fee of N6 200.
DStv Yanga is increasing 18.6% from N2 950 to N3 500, and DStv Padi is rising 16.2% from N2 150 to N2500.
For Gotv subscribers the Supa package price is increasing 16.3% from N5 500 to N6 400 while GOtv Max increases 16.8% from N4 150 to N4 850.
The GOtv Jolli package price in Nigeria will increase 17.8% from N2 800 to N3 300, while GOtv Jinja is increasing 18.4% from N1 900 to N2 250, and GOtv Lite is increasing 22.2% from N900 to N1 100 from May 2023.
