[JUST IN] NBC Suspends Channels Tv For Speaking With IPOB

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has suspended Channels
Television with a fine N5 million for breaching the broadcast
code.

In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television
signed by the Acting Director-General of the Commission, NBC, Prof.
Armstrong Idachaba, the Commission referred to Channels 7 pm live
broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021, in which it
accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the Indigenous
people of Biafra, IPOB to make secessionist and inciting
declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station
contrary to the broadcast code.

Mr Amstrong added that such act contravenes broadcast code.

It also accused the station of allowing the guest speaker to
make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian
army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.

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The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has suspended Channels
Television with a fine N5 million for breaching the broadcast
code.

In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television
signed by the Acting Director-General of the Commission, NBC, Prof.
Armstrong Idachaba, the Commission referred to Channels 7 pm live
broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021, in which it
accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the Indigenous
people of Biafra, IPOB to make secessionist and inciting
declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station
contrary to the broadcast code.

Mr Amstrong added that such act contravenes broadcast code.

It also accused the station of allowing the guest speaker to
make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian
army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.

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