NBC suspends Channels TV over IPOB leader’s interview – The Informant247
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended Channels Television with a fine of N5million for breaching the broadcast code.
In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television, signed by the Acting Director-General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, accused the station of allowing the guest speaker to allegedly make derogatory and misleading statements about the Nigerian Army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.
The suspension came after Channels TV interviewed a leader of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) during the Channels TV 7 pm live broadcast program on Sunday, April 25, 2021.
The letter also claimed that the TV station allowed a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to make secessionist and inciting declarations on the air without being cautioned or reprimanded by the station which is