A Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) from imposing fines on broadcast stations. The court held that NBC lacks the power to impose sanctions as punishment on alleged erring broadcast stations. Information Minister, Orji, said the judgment is “ill-conceived and dead on arrival because of legal encumbrances.” EKO HOT … Read more
SERAP and CJID have taken legal action against Buhari and others over the N5m fine imposed on Channels TV. Channels Television was fined N5 million by NBC for conducting an interview with Datti Baba-Ahmed that was deemed to have breached the NBC code. SERAP described the N5m fine as illegal and unconstitutional. EKO HOT BLOG … Read more
Ask court to determine whether minister has power to amend NBC code The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the house of representatives have instituted a legal action against the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and minister of information, Lai Mohammed over the recently amended broadcasting code. Also named as a defendant in the suit is … Read more
Playwright and Nobel laureate, has berated the federal government over the amended 6th broadcasting code by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Soyinka described the amended code as an “economic sabotage”, asking the Government to admit its war on “arts and its producers instead of its tactics of slowly weakening the sector”. The NBC had reviewed … Read more