By Raymond Ozoji, Awka Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has assured that Anambra State under his watch is comparatively secured and peaceful six months into his administration. While he agreed that there could be cases of isolated criminalities, the frequency of such occurrences, he pointed out, has reduced to the barest minimum. The press statement released by ...
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Riding On Lagos Blue And Red Lines Will Be Affordable – Sanwo-Olu
•Feasibility study, traffic count being carried out on other lines •Lagos still has good sustainability ratio for project financing Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has assured that riding on Lagos Red and Blue Lines rail system will be affordable and cost-effective to passengers. Governor Sanwo-Olu made this known on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television breakfast programme, while speaking on ...
Read More »Guild Of Editors Denounces NBC Fines As Punitive
The Nigerian Guild of Editors has rejected the N5m ( five million Naira) fine imposed on Channels Television and Inspiration FM by the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, for alleged infractions. It described the fines are punitive, arbitrary and against press freedom. In a statement signed by the President, Mustapha Isah, and General Secretary, Mary Atolagbe, the Guild said, “The NBC ...
Read More »SERAP Sues FG, Wants ECOWAS Court To Declare NBC Broadcasting Code Illegal
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and twenty-four concerned Nigerians have sued the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja over “the arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code to target, harass, sanction, and fine independent television and radio stations in Nigeria, and to restrict Nigerians’ ...
Read More »Guild Of Editors Slams NBC Threat To Channels TV
The Nigerian Guild of Editors has condemned in strong terms the threat issued to Channels Television by the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, over an interview with the spokesperson of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Emmanuel Powerful. Powerful had featured on Channels programme, Politics Today on Sunday April 25, 2021, during which he allegedly made inciting statements. The ...
Read More »Lift Suspension Of Channels TV Or Face Legal Action, SERAP Tells FG
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately reverse the arbitrary, unconstitutional and illegal decision to suspend Channels Television, and to impose a fine of N5 million on the station purportedly for breaching the broadcast code.” According to reports, the Acting Director General of the Commission, ...
Read More »Condemnations Trail NBC’s Sanction Against Channels TV For Interviewing IPOB Official
Nigerians on social media, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, and the Peoples Democratic Party have condemned the National Broadcasting Commission for sanctioning Channels Television by ordering an immediate stoppage of one of its programmes, ‘Politics Today’. The Acting Director-General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, had in a letter accused the TV station of interviewing a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra allegedly ...
Read More »Don’t Muzzle Free Press, NEBPRIL Warns NBC
Network for Best Practice and Integrity in Leadership, NEBPRIL, has cautioned the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, not to inflame passions by seeking to truncate the free flow of information to the citizenry. Coming against the background of fines imposed on the broadcasting trio of ARISE News Channel, African Independent Television(AIT), and Channel’s Television, NEBPRIL stated that the NBC could ill ...
Read More »SERAP Asks NBC To Withdraw Illegal Fines On Channels TV, AIT, Arise TV Or Face Legal Action
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “condemned the unconstitutional and illegal fines of N9m reportedly imposed by the National Broadcasting Commission [NBC] on Channels TV, AIT and Arise TV [N3m each] purportedly over their coverage of the #EndSARS protests.” The acting Director-General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, announced at a press conference in Abuja today that the agency ...
Read More »NGE Demands Adequate Security For Media Houses
The Nigerian Guild of Editors has described the recent attack on some journalists and media houses as unwarranted and condemnable. The Guild notes that the Nigerian media contributed immensely to the current democracy being enjoyed in Nigeria and should therefore operate in an atmosphere of unfettered access to information and peace. The Guild recalls that journalists had engaged in reporting ...
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