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SERAP drags FG to ECOWAS court over NBC broadcasting code Segun Adewole Published 2 May 2021 Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and 24 concerned Nigerians have sued the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the National Broadcasting Commission at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja. SERAP said the suit is over “the arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code to target, harass, sanction, and fine independent television and radio s...

SERAP is asking the ECOWAS Court to declare “illegal and contrary to Nigeria’s international human rights obligations the provisions of the NBC Act and broadcasting code frequently apply by the Federal Government and NBC to target, harass, intimidate, and impose sanctions on independent television and radio stations in the country.”

Channels TV, others: SERAP sues FG, wants NBC broadcasting code quashed On By Olasunkanmi Akoni Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and 24 concerned Nigerians have sued the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja over “arbitrary” use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code. In the suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/19/21 and filed last week by SERAP Depuy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare and  ...

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The National broadcasting Commission yesterday imposed a fine of N5 million on Channels TV. The fine, according to the letter addressed to the managing director of the TV station, said the fine was in reaction to the hosting of the spokesperson of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Emma Powerful. The letter signed by the acting Director-General of NBC, Armstrong Idachaba, said Powerful’s  statement on Channel’s Politics Today was inciting without being cautioned during the programme. ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 27 April 2021 The National Broadcasting Commission on Tuesday said Channels Television has apologised over its infraction of the broadcasting code. NBC’s Director of Public Affairs, Mrs Franca Aiyetan, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja. Aiyetan explained that the commission’s letter to the TV station was a regulatory instrument to check the excesses of the station called “the bridge letter “. She said that t...

Vanguard News For DSO, a new life in a season of expectations On By Okoh Aihe The thing about the future is that it steals on you like a thief at night and you are hardly prepared. The launch of the second phase of the Digital Switchover, DSO, which looked very far away, is beginning tomorrow from Lagos. Whether it is the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, who should be driving it or the Minister through the Ministry of Information and Culture who should have been an invitee to the event, ...

IPOB Interview: Channels TV Has Apologised For Breaching Broadcasting Code – National Broadcasting Commission NBC said the commission’s letter to the TV station was a regulatory instrument to check the excesses of the station. by Saharareporters, New York Apr 27, 2021 The National Broadcasting Commission says Channels Television has apologised over its alleged infraction of the broadcasting code. The Commissions Director of Public Affairs, Franca Aiyetan, disclosed this in an interview ...

By Okoh Aihe The thing about the future is that it steals on you like a thief at night and you are hardly prepared. The launch of the second phase of the Digital Switchover, DSO, which looked very far away, is beginning tomorrow from Lagos. Whether it is the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, who should be driving it or the Minister through the Ministry of Information and Culture who should have been an invitee to the event, there seems to be some level of readiness and, come tomorrow, even...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Tuesday said Channels Television has apologised for breaching the country’s broadcasting code. NBC’s Director of Public Affairs, Franca Aiyetan, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Abuja. Ms Aiyetan said the commission’s letter to the TV station was a ‘regulatory instrument’ to check the excesses of the station called ‘the bridge letter’ and was not to suspend it. She said that the intent of...