National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has on Monday, April 25 suspended Channels Television with N5 million fine for breaching broadcast code in the country.
NBC in a letter to Managing Director of Channels Television, signed by Acting Director General of the commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, referred to Channels 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, April 25, 2021.
It accused the TV station of allowing a leader of Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air without being cautioned or reprimanded by the station, describing it as a contradiction to broadcast code.
NBC also accused the station of allowing the guest speaker to allegedly make derogatory and misleading statements about the Nigerian Army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.
More details to come.
Watch excerpt of the video interview below;
NBC has fined Channels TV 5 million naira and also suspended them for interviewing IPOB PRO
See the video here: pic.twitter.com/PEDQvtoTp2
— GoldMyne (@GoldmyneTV) April 26, 2021
NBC has fined Channels TV 5 million naira and also suspended them for interviewing IPOB PRO
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See the video here: pic.twitter.com/V8FObsXAsm
— GoldMyne (@GoldmyneTV) April 26, 2021
