GOtv Plus Channels in Nigeria and Where to Find Them Now
GOtv Plus ended in 2020 and Jolli, which took its place, has gone too. By our reading the nearest now is Starter at ₦6,000. Its channels, with numbers.
Two names have gone here. Plus came off sale in 2020 in favour of GOtv Jolli, and Jolli has now gone too, in GOtv’s cut to four packages. GOtv does not name a successor to either. We read Starter as the nearest, because its ₦6,000 and 68+ channels sit right beside Jolli’s ₦5,800 and 65+.
It is not a straight swap. CNN, Nickelodeon and TNT Africa were on Jolli and are missing from Starter, and all three now start at Select, at ₦11,000.
Sports channels on Starter
Football is what most Plus searches are after, so it comes first. Starter has six sports channels, with their numbers: ESPN (56), SportyTV (58), SuperSport Blitz (60), SuperSport Kickoff (61), SuperSport Africa (62) and SuperSport LaLiga (63).
LaLiga is the gain: on Jolli you had to move up to Max for it. GOtv sells Starter on “select live sport” without listing matches, and says SportyTV carries 750+ live events a year. SuperSport Football starts at Select, and the SuperSport Premier League channel is on Sports alone, at ₦21,000.
The rest of the Starter channel list
These are the other channels on GOtv’s Starter page.
- Movies: Africa Magic Epic (6), M-Net Legends (50)
- General entertainment: Africa Magic Yoruba (2), Africa Magic Hausa (3), Africa Magic Igbo (4), Africa Magic Family (7), ROK 2 (10), Trybe (13), Televista (14), Zee World (30), Telemundo (33), Novelas+ (34), Real Time (35), Bravo (36), Discovery Family (37)
- Children: Jim Jam (80), Disney Junior (82), Moonbug Kids (85), Cartoon Network (89)
- News: News Central (23), Arise News (24), TVC News (25), NTA News 24 (26), Channels (27), BBC World News (70), Al Jazeera (71), NTA Parliament (126)
- Music: Sound City (21), Hip TV (22), Base Pulse (40), Trace Naija (46)
- Lifestyle: Spice TV (19), The Wedding Channel (105)
- Documentary: Nat Geo Wild (100)
- Religious: Faith (110), Islam Channel (111), Dove TV (113), Sunna TV (114)
- Local: TVC Entertainment (16), Afia TV (17), Tozali TV (18), Catholic TV (115), Lagos TV (120), Silverbird (121), AIT (122), NTA International (124), NTA 2 (125), Wazobia TV (128), WAP TV (129), Tiwa N Tiwa (131), OGTV (133), BCOS (134), Arewa 24 (136), Liberty TV (137), ITV Benin (140), EBS (141), RSTV (142), Biscon TV (144), R2TV (145), Rave TV (146)
With the six sports channels that makes 66. GOtv’s 68+ comes from filing NTA News 24 and NTA Parliament twice, under news and local.
How Starter differs from Jolli
Starter adds nine channels Jolli’s page did not show: Novelas+, Base Pulse, Trace Naija, M-Net Legends, Moonbug Kids, Cartoon Network, The Wedding Channel, SuperSport LaLiga and SportyTV. It keeps 57 of Jolli’s 63.
Besides the three at the top, the other losses are ONMAX and the Naija FM and Wazobia FM radio stations, none of which is on any new package page.
MultiChoice says active subscribers move automatically from 5 November, with at least the content they had and no charge for the move. It has not named the package for Jolli. Starter is short of CNN and Nickelodeon, so we read that promise as possibly putting Jolli subscribers on Select. See what the MyGOtv app shows before you next pay.
Moving down to Easy or up to Select
Over twelve months Easy at ₦4,000 comes to ₦48,000, Starter at ₦6,000 to ₦72,000 and Select at ₦11,000 to ₦132,000. Jolli at ₦5,800 was ₦69,600, so Starter is ₦2,400 a year more.
Dropping to Easy saves ₦2,000 a month and costs you 21 channels, Zee World, Telemundo, ESPN and Cartoon Network among them. Going up to Select costs ₦5,000 a month more and adds 19, including SuperSport Football, CNN, Nickelodeon, M-Net Movies+ and WWE. That is ₦60,000 a year, worth it for a home with children or a SuperSport Football habit. Select’s whole list is in our GOtv Max channels list.
A new decoder costs ₦15,000 with the GOtenna antenna, and MultiChoice says that covers a month of an entry-level package. A first year on Starter is ₦15,000 plus eleven months at ₦6,000, which comes to ₦81,000.
Old GOtv package names and the nearest now
GOtv publishes no table like this one. The right-hand column is our reading, by price and channel count.
| Name you remember | Its last form | Nearest now |
|---|---|---|
| GOtv Lite | Smallie, ₦1,900, 35+ | Easy, ₦4,000, 47+ |
| GOtv Value | Jinja, ₦3,900, 45+ | Easy, ₦4,000, 47+ |
| GOtv Plus | Jolli, ₦5,800, 65+ | Starter, ₦6,000, 68+ |
| GOtv Max | Max, ₦8,500, 75+ | Select, ₦11,000, 87+, or Starter |
| GOtv Supa | Supa, ₦11,400, 80+ | Select, ₦11,000, 87+ |
| GOtv Supa Plus | Supa Plus, ₦16,800, 85+ | Sports, ₦21,000, 94+ |
MultiChoice Nigeria introduced Jolli and Jinja on 1 December 2019. The old and new stayed on sale together until June 2020, when Plus and Value came off GOtv’s packages page, and Lite became Smallie a few months later. MultiChoice’s 2025 promotion terms still treated Jolli as Plus and Jinja as Value, so a Value viewer’s story is the same as this one, a rung lower.
For the four side by side, open GOtv packages and prices. If it was Lite you were on, the GOtv Lite channels list covers Easy. All of this is GOtv Nigeria, and GOtv’s other countries have their own sites.
