The Nigerian government plans to close the 3rd Mainland Bridge for necessary repairs. The plan is to complete the work within six months!. Yes, 6 months. Channels TV reports that the shut down will begin on July 24. Call it a Traffic-geddon in Lagos. Lagosians, this 2020 na wa ohh!

The Federal Government is set to shut the Third Mainland Bridge for six months starting from Friday, July 24.

This was confirmed by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Olukayode Popoola.

According to him, consultations are ongoing for another phase of repair works to begin on the 11.8km bridge.

Popoola explained that the work will commence on the outward mainland section of the bridge, and the ministry is working with relevant agencies to perfect traffic during the period.

The bridge has gone through a series of repair works and was last shut in August 2018 for a three-day investigative maintenance check.

There have also been reports of some worn-out expansion joints on the structure, raising concerns over the state of the bridge.

This development will force motorists in Lagos who ply the bridge to begin making arrangements for alternative routes.

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MultiChoice, the brand owner of DStv, has a problem in Nigeria. Looking at the comments on Tekedia, it is evident that Nigerians do not admire this brand. If MultiChoice wants to thrive, it needs to fix that image dislocation. Yes, you cannot be the messenger of entertainment which most do not like. In various combinations of words, the citizens are clear: go home DStv; we do not like monopoly. All efforts to make market sense to the members did not work. On pure market analysis, this company relies on a raw material (TV rights), and the price of this product has been increasing even when the Nigerian naira has been losing value, and consequently would need to raise rates to stay in business. But many do not care!

Without any doubt, the commenters made it clear: MultiChoice, we do not believe you. Yes, we do not think you are operating at a loss. The certainty of that conclusion could not be mistaken when some write, “Let them go!” Of course, MultiChoice is not leaving Nigeria because the future of MultiChoice is tethered in Nigeria. Its recent deal with Netflix and Amazon Prime must have been built on Africa’s largest economy and the most populous one.

Sample of comments

Almost everything in Nigeria works in opposite direction, so while governments are traditionally there to protect the poor and vulnerable groups, Nigerian government is more concerned with making sure that the rich are very comfortable. How many people subscribe to DSTv and its constituents in Nigeria? Less than six million, such a luxury! Yet, it’s the sort of things our government is even concerned about.

Well, since we live in strange land, the same way the government borrowed five hundred million dollars to make NTA digital, amidst depleted revenue, it can as well bankroll NTA to purchase the sports rights! You cannot beat Nigeria when it comes to doing things that are absurd.

The same way DISCOs cannot increase energy bill, even when naira has tanked, to serve Nigerians, you must be a magician; no wonder nothing works.

We want all the best things life can offer, yet no one sits down to calculate the cost, just keep the price the same, irrespective of input costs.

Our education is faulty, it failed to liberate minds here.

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I guess you are one of the rich Nigerians enjoying and subscribing to the dstv repeated and outdated contents, it’s not wrong if the government tries to regulate their activity, do you remember how many indigenous pay tv that has come and died bcoss of the so called company by acquiring exclusive right to contents which we pay hard to watch, do you remember some year back the amount of dollars they repatriated from Nigeria to their country of birth some years back?, Now talk of discos how many dollars has been spent in Nigeria on electricity since the days of PDP in Nigeria to date, common 18 hrs light we don’t have, but you want price to always increase when we don’t have value for the money hard earned and paid to these discos for services we hardly enjoy, guy I think you have a rethink and let’s support what the government has done in this regards.

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At the time DSTV was making huge profit in Nigeria did they complain?
That monopoly they have been enjoying has to stop. We can’t continue this way, is this how they pay in South Africa?
Let them go!

That takes me to potential MultiChoice challengers in Nigeria. First, there is none. IROKOtv has stalled for such a combat. TStv experienced an effervescence and disappeared. Largely, the only challenger is online streaming from foreign solution providers. Unfortunately, streaming online is not that cheap. It has two cost elements – the subscription to the player and the broadband cost. The latter is a bigger cost element since not many people in Nigeria can afford to watch hours of videos online. The cost of that broadband in Nigeria for ten games can pay for whatever DStv charges for a month!

Yet, for everything happening, there is one major problem DStv has to overcome: MTN Nigeria. Many members on Tekedia and LinkedIn connected to that. It has to do with MTN Nigeria per-minute billing at the early phase of its product in Nigeria. Then, MTN claimed that per-second billing was impossible, meaning that MTN  charged Nigerians the same for a 59 second call as for a second one. But with the arrival of Gloworld and its per-second billing, MTN quickly released the same feature it said was not possible. That pendulum is why many do not believe DStv since MultiChoice is South African, like MTN. Sounds familiar with DStv’s lack of pay per view in Nigeria? Simply, DStv is lying like MTN, they reason!

Another South African company, MTN claimed it is not possible to implement bill by the seconds, akin to pay per view. They made threats of network crash, dollars needed for equipment upgrade and good excuses. Recall that their exclusivity expired. GLO launched their service with billing by second. MTN almost immediately implemented the same billing model, to remain relevant. DSTV are free to leave Nigerian if the cannot follow Nigeria’s business model (Tekedia comment)

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