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A Federal High Court in Abuja issued an order of perpetual injunction, barring the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) from imposing fines on broadcast stations in Nigeria | Pulse Nigeria

The court also set aside the N500,000 fines imposed by NBC on 1 March 2019, on each of 45 broadcast stations.

Justice Omotosho held that the NBC, not being a court of law, had no power to impose sanctions as punishment on

An Abuja Federal High Court has barred the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) from imposing fines on Nigerian broadcast stations.

Justice Nkeonye Evelyn Maha of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA) permission to sue the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in two separate cases. MRA sued the Commission for its failure to grant the organisation's requests for information on the scope of independence reportedly granted it by President Muhammadu Buhari and details of the 302 broadcasting stations it said it sanctioned in four months after campaigns for the 2023 elections began i...

By JOY ADARA, Abuja - A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA) leave to sue the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in two separate cases over the Commission’s failure to grant the organization’s requests for information on the scope of independence reportedly granted it by President Muhammadu Buhari and details of

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA) leave to sue the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in two separate cases over the Commission’s failure to grant the organization’s requests for information on the scope of independence reportedly granted it by President Muhammadu Buhari and details of the 302 broadcasting stations it said

Justice Nkeonye Evelyn Maha granted MRA leave to apply to the court to compel the NBC to make available to it the information it requested after hearing arguments from the organization’s lawyers in two separate ex parte motions in which it complained that the Commission had failed to respond to two separate applications for information - the first dated February 17, 2023 and signed by Maimuna Momoh, a Programme Officer at MRA; and a second letter dated February 20, 2023 and signed by Monday Ar...

For the umpteenth time, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has acted arbitrarily in the purported exercise of its powers as the regulatory authority for the broadcast sector in Nigeria. On March 31st, it was announced that NBC had slammed a fine of N5 million on Channels Television,

The International Press Centre and Media Rights Agency took the position in a joint statement it released on Tuesday.