We are adding around 20, 000 or 25, 000 M-Pesa customers to our network every day.
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"It's quite fortunate because I'm the vice-president of that television network, " said Fashanu, who is soon to be named chairman of the Nigeria Premier League.
M-PESA, first launched by the Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, has since expanded mobile money services into other developing nations.
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To many in the industry, it was never a matter of if but when the ratings-challenged network would decide to can the 10 p.m. talk show experiment.
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Despite the disaster that was The Jay Leno Show (the comedian will return to his 11:35 p.m. perch Monday night) and a little-watched slate of original series, the network has the Olympics to thank for a seasonal ratings climb.
General Electric ( GE - news - people )-owned network replaced five hours historically housed by dramas with the nightly 10 p.m.
And while that audience isn't competitive with most 10 p.m. dramas, the decision is poised to be a major cost saver for the ratings-challenged network.
Cultivating a network of entrepreneurs inside this system, in concert with local universities and outfits like M-PESA, the mobile payment service of Vodaphone affiliate Safaricom, is another step.
Though NBC executives insist that the 10 p.m. program was still making money for the network, the affiliates were shedding significant viewership and threatening to pre-empt the series.
Just a week-and-a-half after NBC officially canceled his Jay Leno Show, the host of the network's failed prime-time experiment is being restored to his 11:35 p.m. time slot on March 1.
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