By Ismail Auwal
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has announced the suspension of Channels Television with a fine of N5 million for breaching the broadcast code.
The was disclosed in a letter by the Acting Director-General of the Commission, NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba.
The sanction was contained in a letter to the signed by.
According to the letter sent to the Managing Director of Channels Television, the Commission referred to Channels 7 pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April 2021, in which it accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the 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.
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.
