Tag: NBC
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NBC meets with top officials of the Ghana Boundary Commission on maritime boundary
NBC meets with top officials of the Ghana Boundary Commission on maritime boundary
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President Buhari approves 159 new radio, television stations
159 new radio, television stations
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Soyinka speaks on Igboho’s detention in Cotonou, NBC’s query to Channels Television
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the government of the Republic of Benin to release Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to continue his journey. The playwright spoke during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos on Friday. Speaking during the interactive session titled, “Sanctions on the loose: Chasing…
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JUST IN: NBC queries Channels TV over Ortom interview, demands response within 24Hrs
The National Broadcasting Commission has queried Channels Television over the “inciting, divisive and unfair comments” made by Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on the TV’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme on Tuesday. NBC made this known in a letter to the television station titled, ‘Notice of Infraction’. The regulator’s letter was dated August 24, 2021, and…
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A Season of Holding Talks at NBC – Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe In 1979, Prof. Ola Rotimi, playwright and wordsmith, a venerated idol of mine, who is resting in that fine place reserved only for the saints, wrote one of his plays, Holding Talks. The play falls into the genre of drama called theatre of the absurd, wherein a Barber and his Client are…
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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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NBC denies ordering media houses not to report details of terrorists attacks
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has debunked reports that it directed media houses to stop reporting details of terrorist attacks. Disclosing this in a letter signed by the Director-General of the Commission, Balarabe Ilelah, obtained by Vanguard, the commission argued that the contents of its “letter are not intended and by no means capable of…
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SERAP gives Buhari, NBC 24 hours to withdraw gag order on reporting of terrorist attacks
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his leadership position “to urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to withdraw the directive containing a sweeping gag order banning journalists and broadcast stations from reporting…
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We won’t stop reporting terrorist attacks – Media veterans to NBC
Nigerian media chiefs have said the media won’t be daunted by the directive of the Federal Government that the media should not divulge “details” of the activities of bandits, terrorists and kidnappers in their reports. The President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mustapha Isah; the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Chris…