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  • Datti’s Interview: NBC Slams N5m Fine On Channels TV Shortly After Tinubu’s Petition

    Datti’s Interview: NBC Slams N5m Fine On Channels TV Shortly After Tinubu’s Petition

    The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has slammed a fine of N5 million on Channels Television for breaking the broadcasting law in a programme with Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate.

    This comes a few hours after the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for 2023 presidential election, Bola Tinubu petitioned the station over its interview with the LP Vice Presidential candidate.

    In a letter addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of the television station and dated March 27, NBC said the station violated its code of conduct.

    The letter, with the title: “Broadcast of an Inciting Interview, A Sanction”, was signed by Balarabe Ilelah, the commission’s Director-General.

    It read in part: ”The NBC monitored the broadcast of a live interview of the running mate of the Labour Party Vice presidential candidate, Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, by the anchor of Politics Today, Seun Okibaloye, on Wednesday, March 22.

    “Dr Baba-Ahmed said it will be unconstitutional to swear in an elected president on May 29, 2023, because of election irregularities,” Ilelah said in the letter.

    He noted that the broadcast was volatile and capable of inciting public disorder and therefore violated some sections of the broadcasting code.

    This, according to him, includes the section that said no broadcast shall encourage, or incite, be repugnant to public feelings or contain offensive reference to any person or organisation, alive or dead, or generally be disrespectful to human dignity.

    Ilelah added that according to the broadcasting code, broadcasters shall ensure that no programme contained anything which amounted to subversion of constituted authority.

    He recalled that NBC had engaged Channels Television severally to consider public interest before any programme is broadcast.

    This, he said, was to ensure that the country was not plunged into anarchy.

    “Consequently, on the following infractions, Channels Television is hereby sanctioned and shall pay a penalty of N5,000,000 (five million naira) only in the first instance,” he said.

    He added that any further infraction by the television station would attract higher sanctions.

    “You are advised to pay within two weeks from the day of receipt of this letter or the penalty will be graduated,” the NBC Director-General said.

  • JUST IN: NBC Threatens To Sanction Channels TV Over Ortom Interview

    JUST IN: NBC Threatens To Sanction Channels TV Over Ortom Interview

    The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has threatened to sanction Channels Television over an interview granted by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State.

    In an interview he granted Channels Television on Tuesday, Ortom described President Muhammadu Buhari as the worst in terms of insecurity.

    He also accused the president of nepotism, saying he has a hidden agenda.

    “Mr President is pushing me to think that what they say about him, that he has a hidden agenda in this country is true. Because it is very clear that he wants to Fulanise the country, but he is not the first Fulani president.

    “Shagari was a Fulani President, Yar’ Adua was a Fulani President, and they were the best in history. But President Buhari is the worst President when it comes to issues of security and keeping his promises.”

    The presidency, through Malam Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, had hit back at Ortom, accusing him of inciting the country.

    In a letter dated August 24, 2021, Balarabe Shehu Illela, Director-General of the NBC, asked Channels Television to explain why sanctions should not be taken against it for broadcasting a programme capable of inciting violence.

    The commission, which gave Channels 24 hours to respond to its query, said the television station clearly breached the NBC code.

  • BREAKING: FG Suspends Channels TV for interviewing IPOB

    BREAKING: FG Suspends Channels TV for interviewing IPOB

    The federal government has suspended a leading media outfit in Nigeria, Channels Television.

    The authorities also announced a fine N5 million for breach of the broadcast code.

    In a letter by National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Acting Director-General, Armstrong Idachaba, complained about the Channels 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, April 25, 2021.

    NBC told the Managing Director of Channels TV 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 accused 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.