The Federal Government on Monday pronounced it would not bear any move by South African company, MultiChoice, to lay off Nigerian workers in its employ under any guise.
This followed a meeting between the management of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the management of MultiChoice on Monday.
The commission summoned MultiChoice over the proposed increase on some DStv and GOtv packages which takes effect from today regardless of a similar increase three months ago.
According to MultiChoice, in a message to subscribers, DSTV Premium would move from N16, 200 to N18,400; Compact Plus from N10,925 to N12,400; Compact from 6,975 to 7,900, and for users of GOtv Max, they would have to pay the sum of N3,600 from 3,280.
The latest increase comes amid an existing order of the House of Representatives looking for a stay of action on the earlier hike which the company blamed on the Federal Government’s 2.5 percent increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) from five to 7.5 percent.
John Ugbe, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, said the decision to increase the prices was made after a careful consideration of the market and a review of its business operations.
He noted that the company reviewed its prices while considering financial impacts, including inflation, increased content and operational costs, so they could continue to survive as a business and bring quality entertainment to customers.
Only the prices of some of the bouquets reviewed upwards while the lower bouquets left untouched.
