{"id":61785,"date":"2025-02-25T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61785"},"modified":"2025-02-25T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:29:43","slug":"multichoice-hikes-dstv-gotv-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/25\/multichoice-hikes-dstv-gotv-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"MultiChoice Hikes DStv, GOtv Prices\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice Nigeria has announced a sharp increase in subscription rates for DStv and GOtv packages, effective March 1, 2025, citing rising operational costs driven by Nigeria\u2019s economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by CEO John Ugbe, the pay-TV giant said the decision followed &#8220;careful consideration&#8221; and acknowledged the strain it could place on subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the hike, the company pledged to maintain high-quality content and service.<\/p>\n<p>The new subscription rates are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>DStv: Compact: N19,000 (up from N15,000), Compact Plus: N30,000 (up from N24,500) and Premium: N44,500 (up from N29,500).<\/p>\n<p>GOtv: Max: N8,500, Supa: N11,400 and Supa Plus: N16,800.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice thanked customers for their loyalty and reaffirmed its commitment to offering premium entertainment despite the price surge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke MultiChoice Nigeria has announced a sharp increase in subscription rates for DStv and GOtv packages, effective March 1, 2025, citing rising operational costs driven by Nigeria\u2019s economic challenges. In a statement signed by CEO John Ugbe, the pay-TV giant said the decision followed &#8220;careful consideration&#8221; and acknowledged the strain it could place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61787,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61785\/revisions\/61787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}