D’banj Dumps GLO For MTN In Surprise New Deal





Nigerian international music act, D'banj has reportedly parted ways with Globacom and pitched tent with rival MTN.

According to TheNET, ‘the deal happened a few weeks ago and Dbanj is very happy about it’.

This will be the 2nd time Dbanj will fail to renew a deal with Globacom.

D’banj and Globacom fell out in 2010 when the pop singer reportedly entered the company’s bad books and all efforts at reconciliation failed. Despite multiple interventions, the telco refused to extend his N70M two-year contract, settling instead for pop Twins Psquare for a four year deal worth over N240m.

But in 2013, a chance of meeting with Glo’s billionaire owner Mike Adenuga led to a new endorsement deal, one of the costliest signings of 2013.

That contract has now expired, and D'banj refused to renew his contract. What’s not certain is whether Globacom desired a renewal in the first place.

‘D’banj is a content evangelist. Ideally he should have been with MTN in the first place. Glo really doesn’t do much with music content so I assume D’banj has been counting his losses seeing he would have earned huge cheques from MTN’s several VAS products’, a telecoms insider told TheNet.

There has been no official announcement from MTN, D’banj or Globacom.






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