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Saturday, April 01, 2023

NBC Fines Channels Television N5m Over Inciting Interview With LP’s VP Candidate Datti

Channels Television has been fined N5 million by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over an interview with Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate.


In a March 27 letter addressed to Channels Chief Executive Officer and obtained on Friday in Abuja, the NBC said the television station violated broadcasting code.

Titled “Broadcast of an Inciting Interview, A Sanction”, the letter was signed by Balarabe Ilelah, the commission’s Director-General. It read in part: “The NBC monitored the broadcast of a live interview of the running mate of the Labour Party Vice presidential candidate, Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, by the anchor of Politics Today, Seun Okibaloye, on Wednesday, March 22.

Dr Baba-Ahmed said it will be unconstitutional to swear in an elected president on May 29, 2023, because of election irregularities,” Mr Ilelah said in the letter.

He noted that the broadcast was volatile and capable of inciting public disorder and therefore violated some sections of the broadcasting code.
This, according to him, includes the section that said no broadcast shall encourage, or incite, be repugnant to public feelings or contain offensive reference to any person or organisation, alive or dead or generally be disrespectful to human dignity.

Mr Ilelah added that according to the broadcasting code, broadcasters shall ensure that no programme contained anything which amounted to subversion of constituted authority. 

He recalled that the NBC had engaged Channels Television severally to consider public interest before any programme is broadcast.
This, he said, was to ensure that the country was not plunged into anarchy.
“Consequently, on the following infractions, Channels Television is hereby sanctioned and shall pay a penalty of N5,000,000 (five million naira) only in the first instance,” he said.

7 comments:

  1. They should have fine Datti and leave Channels out of this. Them never swear in and e be like this.

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  2. Every organ of the government works only for the people in powder. Nigerians wake up. Politicians are the enemies of Nigeria

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  3. Nigerians brace yourself. Because I feel like very soon y'all will start using vpn on to be able to chat on most of your social media handles

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  4. I pity the Media already. If this criminality is allowed to stay and this persons comes into power, I'm afraid of what becomes of dissenting voice.

    Now I see reason and understand why Mr President would comfortably said, we're going to miss him after he's done in power.

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  5. They didn't all the ones that APC did. Nigeria Tufia

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