True Story - Why Nigeria Was blacked out of #AFCON Broadcast

It is not the federal governments fault, however it is unfortunate that the country had found itself in such a difficult situation.
Nigeria television audience and radio listeners were blacked-out of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) broadcast that began on Saturday in South Africa after failing to reach an agreement with the right-holders.

Confederation of African Football (CAF) broadcast rights owners: LC2 and the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), (BON represents all the terrestrial radio and television stations in Nigeria), have failed to agree on the broadcast price to air all the matches of this year's AFCON.

Nigeria was charged $14.5 million (£8million)
South Africa was charged $4million
Ghana was charged $500thousand
Bon offered $1.2million, which was rejected by JCM.

After the referral of BON to LC2 for further negotiations, the fee was further dropped to £4.5million from £8million but BON insisted on paying $2.5million.

The duo dint reach any conclusion as at the last meeting that held in the country's capital, Abuja, on Monday, 14th of January, 2013.

BON Chairman, Abubakar Jijiwa however said the offer is still on the table for LC2 to consider.

Agreeing with BON stance on the issue, the Group Managing Director of one of Nigeria's largest broadcast operators, Tony Akiotu of DAAR Communications plc said-"In the last one decade, most of us in the industry had not made any profit from broadcasting AFCON, but because of our love for the industry and the game in our country, we have kept at it, but it's about time we stop this regular act of events marketers ripping us off."

As at the time of filing in this report at 4.20PM Nigerian time, the deadlock still stands which could mean for the first time in AFCON's history, Africa most populous nation of about 160 million people might not watch AFCON 2013 live on terrestrial television which majority of the populace depends on as compared to the very few that have access to cable television to watch the matches live.

Out of the list, Nigeria has the lowest GDP, so why on earth would they charge us this much? We need to stand UP.
For your information, Punch Newspaper's visa was not granted by the S/A embassy, in order to block all means of broadcast.

BBCNaija