BREAKING: NBC Orders Immediate Cessation Of Channels TV Broadcasting License, Slams It N5m Fine For Interviewing IPOB Spokesman, Comrade Emma Powerful

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The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has sanctioned Channels TV, a News and Current Affairs television, for hosting the spokesman of the largest, global freedom mass movement, the Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB) in an interview.

Already the NBC, in a letter sent to the Channels TV Management on Monday, has ordered the immediate suspension and cessation of broadcasting license of Channels TV and also slammed it with a fine of Five (5) Million Naira.

The interview hosted by Seun Okinbaloye on a program Politics today on Sunday night, was allegedly said to be in contravention of several of the broadcast codes and extant laws of the land, according to a strong worded letter from the NBC to the management of channels.

The letter which reads in part stated, "In the programme a so called new leader or IPOB made several secessionist and inciting declarations or air without caution or reprimand by your station. He also made derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian Army.

“This is reprehensible especially that IPOB remains a proscribed organisation as pronounced by the law courts of the land. This much channels ought to know and respect.”

The letter which was signed by the Acting Director General, Prof Armstrong Idachaba cited sections 3.11.1(b) and 5.4.3 of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code as having been violated.

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It said Channels was now liable to the suspension of its license and a fine of N5millon provided in Section 15 of the code for its infractions.

He directed an immediate cessation of the programme and cautioned that the Channels owes the country the “responsibility for a true professional and ethically guided Broadcasting especially at times of crisis.”

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