The NBC told the Channels TV Managing Director that the TV station erred by allowing a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to make secessionist and inciting declarations
The Nigerian government on Monday suspended a leading news television station in the country, Channels Television.
The authorities also announced a fine of N5 million levied against the news channel for an alleged breach of the broadcast code.
The Acting Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Armstrong Idachaba, had in a letter complained about the Channels TV 7pm broadcast programme of Sunday, April 25, 2021.
The NBC told the Channels TV Managing Director that the TV station erred by allowing a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to make secessionist and inciting declarations without caution.
The regulator alleged that the news channel of allowing the guest speaker to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.
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