Tag: NBC

Liberty TV selected to feature on MultiChoice’ DSTV platform

Aminu Imam

Two northern-based television channels, Liberty TV and Tozali TV, have been accepted by MultiChoice Nigeria to feature on its DSTV and GoTV platforms. This was the result of a fruitful meeting with the Coalition of Northern Groups, (CNG), and officials of Multichoice Nigeria, operators of DSTV/GoTV yesterday, brokered by the Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, (NBC), Isha’q Modibbo Kawu, to settle the issue of non-inclusion of northern-based television channels on some DSTV platforms. Liberty TV is already on the GoTV platform. The meeting, which held at the boardroom of…

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Liberty TV selected to feature on MultiChoice’ DSTV platform

Aminu Imam

Two northern-based television channels, Liberty TV and Tozali TV, have been accepted by MultiChoice Nigeria to feature on its DSTV and GoTV platforms. This was the result of a fruitful meeting with the Coalition of Northern Groups, (CNG), and officials of Multichoice Nigeria, operators of DSTV/GOTV today, brokered by the Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, (NBC), Isha’q Modibbo Kawu, to settle the issue of non-inclusion of northern-based television channels on some DSTV platforms. Liberty TV is already on the GoTV platform. The meeting, which held at the boardroom of…

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NBC sanctions stations for airing false health cure claims, others

Aminu Imam

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. 

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Broadcast Code: NBMOA urges NBC board to submit to ministerial inputs

Ishaku Yohanna

The Northern Broadcast Media Owners Association (NBMOA) has called on the Chairman and Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to submit to the inputs by the Federal Ministry of Information in respect of the controversial 6th amendment of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code (NB Code) and work with all stakeholders to further review the grey areas in the Code in no distant future.  Chairman NBMOA, Alh (Dr) Ahmed Tijjani Ramalan, stated this while commending President Muhammadu Buhari, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed and the Ag Director General of NBC…

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Broadcasting Code Amendment: NBC kicks, accuses Lai Mohammed of acting alone

Ishaku Yohanna

The crisis between the management and Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, worsened on Thursday with the board distancing itself from the 6th review edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code. The board which insisted that its inputs were not sought or collated to make up the amendment also alleged that the minister singlehandedly spearheaded the new amendment, describing it as strange in the history of the nation’s broadcast industry. Chairman of the NBC board, Ikra Bilbis, said Lai Mohammed amended…

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We’re not going back… new NBC code to break ‘the monopoly of DStv’ – Idachaba

Ishaku Yohanna

The Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Armstrong Idachaba, says the commission is not backing down on the controversial amendment to the country’s broadcasting code.  Idachaba said the new broadcasting code is to break the monopoly of “greedy capitalists” who “call themselves dominant players” and allow local payTV platforms to thrive. In March 2020, the NBC released the 6th edition of its broadcasting code, which mandates sub-licensing of premium content and kills the idea of exclusivity. Broadcasters, columnists, and Multichoice, one of the dominant players in the Nigerian payTV…

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You can’t regulate broadcasting as a politician – ex-NTA DG, Iredia tells Lai Moh’d

Ishaku Yohanna

A former Director-General of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Tonnie Iredia says Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, cannot regulate broadcasting in the country while he remains a politician. In his words during a Channels TV programme on Wednesday, the ex DG condemned Lai’s engagement in the amendment of the code of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Tuesday. This contentious code, which augmented the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5 million, is facing countrywide opposition and infuriation. Notable countrymen  — including Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize…

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