Tag: Broadcast Stations
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Election Coverage: SERAP asks Buhari, FG to retract threat to shut down Broadcast Stations
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government (FG) to retract the threat to shut down Broadcast Stations over their coverage of elections. Last week, the FG through the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) said it will shut down broadcast stations found guilty of using their platforms to…
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Court restrains Buhari, NBC from shutting down broadcast stations
Justice Akintayo Aluko of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday stopped the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the National Broadcasting Commission from shutting down 53 broadcast stations in the country and revoking their licenses for allegedly failing to renew their licenses. The judge, in a suit filed by Socio-Economic Rights and…
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NBC extends enforcement order on 52 broadcast stations
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has extended the period in which all outstanding debts by 52 broadcast stations are to be paid from 24 hours to Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2022.
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2023: NBC sets agenda for broadcast stations
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Thursday in Ilorin tasked broadcasts stations in Kwara to promote peace ahead of 2023 elections. Mrs Franca Aiyetan, the Director, Broadcast Monitoring, NBC, made the call during an interactive session with Broadcast Stations’ Operatives in the state organised by the commission. The event was themed: “The role of broadcaster…
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BREAKING: NBC bars broadcast stations from ‘glamourising’ terror attacks, naming victims during newspaper reviews
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered television and radio stations not to divulge “details” of activities of bandits, terrorists and kidnappers in their reports. It specifically directed radio and television stations not to “glamourise the nefarious activities of insurgents” during their daily Newspaper Reviews. Broadcast stations review Newspaper headlines daily before their breakfast shows.…
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#TwitterBan: SERAP rejects NBC’s order to broadcast stations
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “the patently unlawful and unconstitutional directive by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to all broadcast stations in the country to suspend the patronage of Twitter with immediate effect.” The NBC had reportedly stated that the decision followed the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria by the Federal…
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COVID-19: FG grants two-month licence-fee waiver to broadcast stations
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has announced the granting of a two-month licence-fee waiver for terrestrial broadcast stations in the country by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), as part of efforts to ease the negative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the broadcast industry. The Minister, who stated this at a…