BY SIMON       EBEGBULEM

BENIN—THE recent decision by the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, that it must approve every live political programme before it is transmitted, has been described as a great danger to the forthcoming 2015 general elections.

This was part of the resolutions reached at a workshop organised for South-South journalists ahead of the 2015 general elections by the United Nations Development Commission, UNDC, Democratic Governance for Development, European Union, UKAid, Canadian Foreign Affairs Trade Development in collaboration with the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Calabar, Cross River State.

The communique also condemned moves to make Nigerians pay for media content, noting that the moves were dangerous “for the political development and the improvement of the nation’s electoral process.”