The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it has sent a Bill for the regulation of social media to the National Assembly.

The regulator is seeking to repeal and reenact the NBC act, CAP L11 laws of the federation of Nigeria 2004.
Speaking when he hosted, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohamme Idris, at the Commissions headquarters on Tuesday, the NBC Director-General, Balarabe Ilelah, described the ills of social media as a ‘monster’.
Ilelah said the current law does not give the NBC the right to regulate social media. However, according to him, the Commission has the right to punish any broadcaster in line with the act establishing NBC.
On his part, the Information Minister said the NBC should work with the media so they do not see the Commission as punitive. He stated the need to change the erroneous narrative that NBC was synonymous with sanctions and fines, and urged the Commission to engage stakeholders in its operations to check violations of the National Broadcasting Code.
Idris noted that the current moves to change the act establishing the NBC at the National Assembly were commendable.
Subsequently, the minister and his delegation were taken on a facility tour of NBCs newly acquired state-of-the-art Nationwide Broadcast Monitoring Equipment at its Headquarters.
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