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A former acting Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Professor Armstrong Idachaba, has called for increased dialogue between

Effiong had in 2020 sued the NBC, Mohammed and Malami for arbitrarily amending the Broadcast Code and hiking the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5m.

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Effiong had in 2020 sued the NBC, Mohammed and Malami for arbitrarily amending the Broadcast Code and hiking the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5million.

Lawyers have faulted the recent directive by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on the abolition of self-carriage status by broadcast entities, saying the 2014 Digital Switch Over Whitepaper the commission relied on to issue is an expired document and lacks the force of law. Ahead of the commencement of the second phase of the DSO programme, which has proceeded in fits and starts, including two unmet deadlines, the NBC recently directed digital terrestrial television operators to reconf...

ON THE GO Niger IDPs abandoned on the streets after surviving bandits’ attack One week after bandits attacked Allawa, a community in Shiroro LGA of Niger, residents have been stranded in Pandogari, a town in Rafi LGA, with little intervention from the state... Afaka abduction: Kaduna hands over 5 freed students to parents The Kaduna state government has handed over five students of Federal College Of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna state, freed by bandits to their pare...

The Bill will also increase punishments and fines for untrained journalists. For persons with a first degree in other courses, the new Bill will demand that they obtain a postgraduate certificate in Journalism, Media Art, Communication or related field from any other higher institution in Nigeria or elsewhere. Why this matters: The Nigerian Journalism space has been experiencing major shakeups in recent years. The media faces issues with fake news, dwindling revenues, and perceived creative go...