South
African the Back-bone of Nigeria
In the year 2001
MTN came into Nigeria being the first mobile phone network in Nigeria, which encouraged
other mobile phone service providers to come into the country. Over the years
the services of MTN have being of
average performance which comes with a high price (which cannot be taken
in other countries) they gained 42million users over the past 11 years and
making a lot of profit from us (and giving back so little to us).
The wacky internet
service that we all depend on from Blackberry phones to computers,
MTN connects over
42 million Nigerians everyday including politicians and all office holders,
business owners and their customers, Doctors to patients, loved ones in distant
villages and so on.
Let’s all imagine
if for one day MTN has a system shutdown in Nigeria, the paralyzing effect it
will have on the economy and its people, it will be …………
All we really had
to watch on T.V was NTA, until cable came into the country which was first
introduced by DSTV and other cable providers followed suit. The effect of cable
in the economy was positive; one could get updates of the outside world and
watch what one wants to watch all day and all night at an exorbitant price.
Some Nigerian stations rely on some Dstv
stations for their international NEWS coverage, Dstv Entertainment
channels provide music lovers with the latest
music, people who love to get the latest gist about any and every thing about
the entertainment world at anytime..
The love for sport
got encouraged and increased by the number of channels dedicated to sport for
sport lovers. Nigerians used this to create viewing centers for sport loving
fans who could not afford to watch the match in their home alone or who could
not afford it at all
Now let’s imagine
if we send Dstv packing the ripple effect…………………….
Nigerians that
shop at Shoprite shop there like the mall has always being there since the very
creation of the country, they have every and anything at affordable prices, and the
design and structure of the whole mall encourage other shops to be opened in
the mall.
They bank our
money with their bank “Stanbic bank”, they enable Nigerians to talk from
wherever they are in the country at anytime with MTN, they provide the nation
with what to watch when they turn on the T.V with Dstv.
All these
companies and more also employ a great number of Nigerians
Can South Africa
hold Nigeria to ransom as the power and number of their companies increase each
day in the country?
I wonder what we
Nigerians are looking at as South Africans are setting up our country for us…..
