Entertainment

D’banj ports to MTN from Globacom, Partners with BOI

By Nuel Nonny | 1st August 2016

D’banj has parted ways with Globacom and signed a new deal with rival, MTN in what might be tghge biggest port in the Nigerian Entertainment scene. Recall that D’Banj had earlier threatened a telecoms company with legal action following a complaint that tghe company was milking him.

News reaching us also states that D’banj and MTN are partnering with BOI (Bank Of Industry) to pioneer a new service called ‘The Cream Platform’.

D’banj’s company, DKM in a chat with TheNet.ng ‘It’s more of a partnership between MTN and DKM to launch a platform of visible hope for the creative industry where creative content will be found, housed, financed, nurtured, published, marketed, distributed and sold with track-able monitoring by content owners without leaving their comfort zones. With the support of the Bank of industry who is providing funding for DKM, this initiative and the launching of a new publishing company’

In April at NECLive, he announced a nationwide distribution platform in partnership with SLOT and Gabosky.

Sources say his new deal with MTN is a further step in exploring such solutions – helping distributing entertainment products better, monetizing and monitoring music content and catalogues, and experimenting with markets within the African Union.