President Bola Tinubu reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to restoring peace in the northern regions affected by banditry and kidnapping, with a focus on allowing displaced farmers to return to their lands and boosting food production. Speaking during his 2024 Anniversary Broadcast on the occasion of Nigeria’s 64th Independence Day on October 1, 2024, Tinubu expressed … Read more
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Special Assistant on Public Communications to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, has described President Bola Tinubu’s national broadcast on Monday as uninspiring, deceptive, and a complete waste of time. This is just as he noted that the speech was only done in order to convince the … Read more
Court has extended order shutting down broadcast stations EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Federal High Court in Lagos has extended the order stopping President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Broadcasting Commission from revoking the licenses of 53 broadcast stations in the country and shutting down the stations for allegedly failing to renew their licenses. … Read more
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has temporarily suspended the shutdown of debtor broadcast stations. EKO HOT BLOG reports that the NBC had earlier on Friday, August 19, 2022, issued a shutdown notice to licensees that were indebted to the Commission to the tune of N2.6 billion. EDITOR’S PICK Tinubu Reveals Meeting Details With Obasanjo In … Read more
NBC has granted a TV licence to NYSC to broadcast. EKO HOT BLOG reports that the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has granted an operational license to the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to begin Direct Satellite Broadcasting (BSB); as well as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). The NYSC Director-General, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim, received the broadcast … Read more
Fellow Nigerians, It has become necessary for me to address you having heard from many concerned Nigerians and having concluded a meeting with all the Security Chiefs. I must warn those who have hijacked and misdirected the initial, genuine and well-intended protest of some of our youths in parts of the country, against the excesses … Read more
Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State has directed the state Commissioner of Police, Undie Adie, to investigate the death of two persons in the state capital, Osogbo. The two persons were said to have been killed while thugs attacked #EndSARS protesters and the governor’s convoy on Saturday. Although the governor escaped being attack by the … Read more