Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has sanctioned Channels Television by ordering an immediate stoppage of one of its programmes, ‘Politics Today’.
Acting Director-General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, had in a letter accused Channels Television station of interviewing a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) allegedly without ‘caution or reprimand.’
Idachaba who referred to Channels 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021 in the letter addressed to its Managing Director, accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.
He alleged that the station allowed its IPOB guest to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian army despite being proscribed by a court of law.