The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the agency that regulates broadcasting activities in Nigeria, has released “the regulatory breach profile” for the period between April to June 2020.
According to the NBC document, several stations received penalties for providing false health advisory to audiences and the public on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Also, a sizable number of stations got sanctioned for peddling unverifiable ‘traditional-medicine’ claims to cure diseases.
The NBC said that the quarterly ‘breach profile’ report covers most of the 600 functional broadcasting stations in Nigeria.
