NBC Suspends Channels TV For Speaking With IPOB

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has suspended Channels Television and also slammed them with a fine of N5 million for breaching the broadcast code.

In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television signed by the Acting Director-General of the Commission, NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, 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.

It also accused the station of allowing the guest speaker to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian army, despite being prohibited by a court of law.