Information reaching TheNewsGuru.com, TNG has it that the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has suspended Channels Television with a fine of N5 million for allegedly breaching the broadcast code.
TNG reports that the suspension notice was conveyed in a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television and signed by the Acting Director General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba.
In the letter, the Commission referred to Channels 7 pm live broadcast programme (Politics Today) 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.
It 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.
TNG reports that the said programme which featured the IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful was anchored by Seun Okinbaloye.