The request was contained in the submission of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at the public hearing of a bill to amend the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission Act organised by the House Committees on Information, Ethics and Values.
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The NBC had reportedly stated that the decision followed the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria by the Federal Government over purported use of the platform for “activities that are capable of undermining the corporate existence of Nigeria.”
He particularly singled out one Ahmad Isah of the Human Rights Radio 101.1FM, whom he accused of putting him and the BBC crew in this precarious situation by allegedly releasing their personal phone numbers on air.
This was announced in a statement issued on Thursday after the NBC met with the owner, Ahmed Isah, who is also the host of Berekete Family Show, a programme on the radio station.
The requirements are much stiffer for investors with long-term investment commitments, who have to confront the country’s notoriously acute infrastructural deficit and fill the gaping gaps-all by themselves-and continue to do so. To take on the infrastructural challenges, particularly of the technological variety, requires near-blind faith in Nigeria and, of course, money. Tonnes of it, that is.
These fines, the Editors’ body said on Saturday, are punitive, arbitrary and against press freedom.
Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, the Acting Director-General of the commission, announced this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
The test implies that one can identify a subject by observing its/his or her habitual characteristics and actions. With the duck test, I am scrutinizing the role of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who, in February, announced himself the chairman of the Ministerial Task Force on the Federal Government’s Digital Switchover (DSO) programme. Since then, and, of course, before, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), which should drive the DSO programme, has become an extra in its own movie.
In a statement on Monday, the non-governmental organisation said the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day presents the government and other stakeholders in Nigeria the opportunity to take action to improve on the country’s appalling record of repression of the media and journalists.
SERAP is asking the ECOWAS Court to declare “illegal and contrary to Nigeria’s international human rights obligations the provisions of the NBC Act and broadcasting code frequently apply by the Federal Government and NBC to target, harass, intimidate, and impose sanctions on independent television and radio stations in the country.”
The Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, made the disclosure during the launch of the DSO in Lagos.
NBC’s Director of Public Affairs, Franca Aiyetan, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, on Tuesday in Abuja.
This was after the PDP faulted the caution issued by the National Broadcasting Commission to Channels TV for interviewing the spokesman of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Emma Powerful.
Powerful had featured on Channels programme ‘Politics Today’ on Sunday April 25, 2021, where he allegedly made inciting statements.
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu says his administration will support the Digital Switch Over (DSO) being embarked by the country, saying…
Mohammed made the clarification on Thursday in Abuja when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria flagship interview programme: NANForum.
Speaking after an inspection tour of digital transmitters at NTA Station, Channel 10, Tejuosho, Lagos on Friday, Idachaba said the country hopes to have completed the digital rollout by 2022.
Acting Director-General of the commission, Armstrong Idachaba who gave the clarification at an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, said the fund was to settle outstanding contractual agreements in the DSO project.
Echefu who said this at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday added that the Pay TV had a national spread across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Speaking during the formal handover of the tastefully finished blocks, the District Head, Chief Yunusa Bako Abdullahi, commended the gesture by the foremost Consumer Packaged Goods company and bottlers of Coca-Cola products in Nigeria, saying the community would continue to cherish the support.