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Bobi Wine calls for ‘moral uprising’ against Uganda’s President Museveni

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8 months ago

January 30, 2024

Ugandan pop star-turned-politician, Bobi Wine, has made a call to citizens for a “moral uprising” against Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni.

The presidential candidate of the National Unity Platform (NUP), who made the charge for what he called civil disobedience and “moral uprising” against Museveni who has been in power for 38 years, said the president had used government might to muscle all forms of opposition.

While addressing his followers on Tuesday, Wine said several of his opposition supporters were still missing after a crackdown three years ago.

In an interview with France 24, Wine also said he feared for his life because the regime was bent on eliminating all challengers.

Also on Tuesday, the National Unity Platform filed a case at the high court in Kampala to compel security agencies to release 18 of its supporters who had been missing since the unrest during the 2021 election campaign.

The supporters reportedly disappeared during the heated 2021 election period, when NUP leader, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, ran for president.

The supporters’ whereabouts are unknown, but their families and NUP party leaders believe that they were unlawfully arrested and are still being detained by security forces.

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MultiChoice targets illegal streamers in crackdown against piracy

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10 hours ago

October 9, 2024

Isaac Dachen

Satellite television services provider, MultiChoice, says it is now targeting illegal streamers in its renewed crackdown against piracy.

Frikkie Jonker, the Anti-Piracy Director for Broadcast and Cybersecurity at MultiChoice-owned Irdeto, in a statement on Tuesday, says the company now uses tools to analyse illegal streams and identify the individuals responsible for streaming pirated DStv content.

Jonker stated that authorities knew who the end-users of these pirate streaming services were and warned that MultiChoice would consider legal action against them once criminal proceedings against such operators had been finalised.

“We are going after the whole ecosystem,” Jonker said in response to a question asking who MultiChoice is targeting.

“The company has carried out several raids in recent months, resulting in the arrest of several suspects allegedly involved in pirate streaming operations.

“Suspects include individuals allegedly distributing pirate streaming devices and login credentials for illegal streaming services like Waka TV.

“We have identification tools that we can use to analyse a stream of a pirate operation. By analysing it, we can say that the stream is using account number ‘123’, and then we take that account down,” Jonker said.

Jonker emphasised the importance of the crackdown, stating that the impact of pirate streaming services on platforms such as DStv Stream and Netflix is difficult to quantify due to their size.

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Online streaming platform Spotify increases price for its Nigerian premium subscribers by 40%

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2 days ago

October 7, 2024

Isaac Dachen

Online audio streaming platform, Spotify, has announced an immediate increment in price for its premium subscribers in Nigeria by over 40%.

In a statement announcing the price increase, the platform said the hike in the fee would allow the team to continue innovating on its product offerings and features, providing users with the best experience.

In the notification, Spotify informed that starting from their billing date in November, their subscription price would change from ₦900/month to ₦1,300/month.

The latest price update puts the Premium subscription plan at ₦7,000 ($4.40) monthly, up from the initial ₦5,000 ($3.14), indicating a 40% rise.

The platform had in April, hiked its Premium Plan price from ₦4,400 ($2.76) to ₦5,000 ($3.14).

However, it added that users who do not wish to continue paying for Premium at the new price can cancel via their account page.

Spotify has also introduced Offline Backup to its Premium users globally, allowing them to listen to music offline without needing to download, with the
Offline Backup appearing in the Home feed when users are offline, and can listen to more than five songs once they have offline listening activated.