Nigerians to pay fees to watch Television in 2015 – FG

The Federal Government over the weekend through the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku said it will introduce content access fees ahead of Nigeria’s migration to digital terrestrial television broadcasting by 2015.

TheMinister of Information made the revelation at the opening of the Extra Ordinary Meeting of the National Council of Information in Abuja stating that the planned content access fee, which would be paid by Nigerians seeking access to television content, was in its final phase of adjustments which he hoped would get the nod of the Federal Executive Council before the migration, Daily Independent reports.

In other countries the public broadcast services are run from fees collected on broadcast content.

Maku explained that for anyone to have access to television content one has to pay an annual content access fee which is set to be operational.

The minister cited some of the advantages of the new broadcast content fee collection regime to include: Improved financial capability for stakeholders to improve content and upgrade infrastructure, and would help the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission and other stakeholders to have access to adequate funds for sustained upgrade of their infrastructure for effective service delivery.