The National Broadcasting Commission has summoned Channels Television presenters, Chamberlain Usoh and Kayode Okikiolu, The PUNCH has learnt. Usoh, Okikiolu and two other anchors of the TV’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme were invited to the Abuja office of the regulator on Thursday over some comments made against the President, Major General MuhammaduContinue Reading
The National Broadcasting Commission has banned television and radio stations in Nigeria from disclosing details of the activities of bandits, terrorists and kidnappers in their reports.The NBC directed radio and television stations not to “glamourise the nefarious activities of insurgents” during their daily Newspaper Reviews. As an unwritten custom, broadcastContinue Reading
The Nigerian government through the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Thursday issued a fresh notice to all social media platforms and online broadcasting service providers in Nigeria to apply for its broadcast licence. This new directive affects Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok and others. NBC Director-General, Armstrong Idachaba, issued theContinue Reading
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 24 concerned Nigerians have filed a suit against the Federal Government and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice in Abuja over the alleged arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code toContinue Reading
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project(SERAP), non-partisan, legal and advocacy organization in Nigeria has “condemned the unconstitutional and illegal fines of N3m each reportedly imposed by the National Broadcasting Commission [NBC] on Channels TV, AIT and Arise TV purportedly over their coverage of the #EndSARS protests. SERAP Nigeria in a statementContinue Reading