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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and twenty-four 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 “the arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code to target, harass, sanction, and fine independent television and radio stations in Nigeria, and to restrict Nigerians’ freedom of expression and access to information.”

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 stations in Nigeria, and to restrict Nigerians’ freedom of expression and access to information.”...

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  Opeyemi Owolabi, contended that the code was enacted to target, harass, sanction, and fine independe...