by Thinus Ferreira

MultiChoice Nigeria is once again doing a price hike from April 2022 of DStv and GOtv subscription fees in the West African country blaming Nigeria’s inflation rate and business operations becoming more expensive.

“In light of the rising costs of inflation and business operations, we have had to review the price of our packages to keep delighting our customers with great entertainment, anytime and anywhere,” MultiChoice Nigeria says in a statement.

“Therefore, from 1 April 2022, a new pricing regime for both our DStv and GOtv packages will be in effect.”

DStv Premium is increasing to N21,000 naira (R732) up from N18,400, DStv Compact Plus is increasing to N14,250 (R497) from N12,400, DStv Compact will now cost N9000 (R314) from N7900, Confam is now N5300 (R185) from N4615, Yanga N2950 (R103) from N2565, and Padi N2150 (R75) from N1800.

The DStv Business package will now cost N2669 (R93) and Xtraview and the PVR Access Fee will now be N2900 (R101), up from N2500.

MultiChoice Nigeria is hiking GOtv Max to N4150, GOtv Jolli to N2800, GOtv Jinja to N1900 and will cost GOtv Lite N900.

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (Huriwa) slammed MultiChoice Nigeria’s price hike in a statement, saying “The hike in prices of MultiChoice’s DStv and GOtv packages in Nigeria is outrageous and should be reversed with immediate alacrity before 1 April 2022”.

“It is no longer news that MultiChoice has consistently exploited billions of dollars from Nigerians in the last three decades since its operations in Nigeria in 1993. The South African company has also used unfair competitive strategies to force indigenous Nigerian competitors to close show,” Huriwa claimed.