Kemi Omotosho has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of MultiChoice Nigeria, effective January 2026, succeeding John Ugbe, who is retiring after nearly 15 years at the helm of the company.
Omotosho brings more than 20 years of leadership experience across the media, telecommunications, and digital services landscape in Nigeria. She also has experience across Sub-Saharan Africa, underscoring her deep industry expertise and operational acumen.
Before this role, she held several key positions within the MultiChoice Group, including Executive Head of Customer Value Management in Nigeria. Later, she served as Group Executive Head of Customer Value Management for the Rest of Africa, where she provided functional leadership across more than 50 markets. Most recently, she served as Regional Director for Southern Africa. In this role, she had full profit-and-loss responsibility for operations spanning seven countries.
Omotosho joined Multichoice Nigeria in 2014 as Head of Retention. In subsequent leadership roles, she was instrumental in shaping customer-centric strategies, enhancing subscriber growth, and overseeing major value-management initiatives across the group. She contributed to wider organisational goals and market expansion.
Ensuring Continuity and Stability
In announcing her appointment, MultiChoice highlighted that the leadership transition has been structured to ensure continuity and stability as the company adapts to a competitive and rapidly evolving media landscape.
As CEO, Omotosho will encompass overseeing the company’s strategic direction, day-to-day operations, and engagement with stakeholders, including regulators, partners, and consumers. She has expressed her commitment to deepening consumer relationships and championing local storytelling and the creative economy. She aims to build a future-ready organisation that delivers sustainable value in one of the Group’s most strategic and dynamic markets.
Omotosho’s ascension to CEO is widely seen as both a recognition of her extensive experience within the MultiChoice ecosystem and a strategic choice to lead the Nigerian subsidiary into its next phase of growth and innovation.