The National Broadcasting Commission, (NBC), has suspended Channels Television with a fine of N5 million for breaching the broadcast code.
In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television, signed by the Acting Director-General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, the NBC referred to the TV’s 7 pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April 2021, in which it accused the station of allowing a leader of the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra, (IPOB), to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.
The NBC also accused the station 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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