You will soon have pay to watch ‘free’ TV at home in Nigeria - information minister:

Nigerians who own television sets will soon have to pay “annual content access fee” to improve content and infrastructure of the country’s broadcasting stations. The fee is similar to the TV licence paid in the UK ─ which is used to fund the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). As a result, the BBC does not accept advertisements in the UK because it is financed with tax payers’ money. Government-owned broadcast stations in Nigeria run on
subventions as well as advertising revenue. Nigeria currently operates a radio licence regime which is considered ineffective. However, the federal government said it would introduce “content access fee” to replace radio licence fee ahead of Nigeria’s migration to digital terrestrial television broadcasting by 2015. Information minister Labaran Maku made this known at the opening of the extra ordinary meeting of the National Council of Information (NCI) in Abuja. Maku said the planned content access fee, which was currently undergoing final adjustments, was expected to get the nod of the federal executive council before the migration. He said that government and other stakeholders would leverage on the new technology to make the new format more effective than the archaic radio licence fees format.