China’s Star Times Group says its investment in digital TV – both satellite and terrestrially – for Nigeria now tops $220 million.

The CEO of StarTimes Nigeria, David Zhang, in a local interview, said that since first entering Nigeria in 2010, its investment currently stands at $220 million, and during the past few years has paid a total of $25 million in taxes to Nigeria and employed more than 1000 staff, some 97 per cent of whom are Nigerians.

Zhang was addressing delegates to the 2^nd Chinese Film Festival in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja.

As well as direct staff employees, he said the firm had a network of almost 3000 distributors who had helped win StarTimes more than 4 million subscribers.

Star Times is backing the government’s Africa-wide ‘Access to Satellite TV for Villages’ project, and is donating 20,000 decoders, 3,000 sets of solar generators. 2,000 projectors and 1,000 TV sets pre-equipped for digital TV.

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