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Instruct Minister, NBC to withdraw codes on ‘insult of govs, elders, leaders’, SERAP tells Buhari

On August 16, 202012:26 pmIn News, Politicsby Nwafor

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to withdraw the apparently illegal Broadcasting Code and Memo threatening to sanction any broadcast that denigrates, disrespects, insults, and abuses president, governors, lawmakers, and other elders and leaders in authority.”

21, not 18 persons killed by security agencies during lockdown ― Falana

CODE: Hours after Atiku, SERAP, others chide NBC, Falana wades in, educates commission

On August 14, 20209:59 amIn News, Politicsby Nwafor

Barely ten hours after the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, condemned the five million naira fine, (N5m ), slammed against a Lagos-based radio station, Nigeria Info 99.3Fm, for what it termed ‘unprofessional conduct and violation of NBC code’, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, Friday described the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, action as illegal.

NBC code on insult: Atiku, SERAP, blast commission, caution Buhari

On August 13, 20208:27 pmIn News, Politicsby Nwafor

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Thursday condemned a particular part of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, code, stating that broadcast stations would be punished if they insult a President, Governor, Senator, or any one occupying political position in the country.

#EndSARS coverage: CSOs react to N3m sanction of AIT, ARISE, Channels by NBC

New NB Code review didn’t follow normal procedures, NBC Board alleges

On August 13, 20206:38 pmIn Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

ABUJA-THE Board of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Thursday, distanced itself from the 6th review edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, saying its inputs were not sought or collated to make up the amendment.

Nkanga describes Buhari's failure to honour Reps invitation as unfortunate

‘You will be punished if you insult, President, Governors, Senators, others in Nigeria’

On August 13, 20202:19 pmIn News, Politicsby Nwafor

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Thursday said it would commence punishment for any broadcast station that violates any of its code.

Is the heavenly reward no longer worth waiting for?

Experts bemoan NBC 6th code on ad industry

On August 3, 20201:18 amIn Newsby Nwafor

Experts in the broadcast and marketing communications industries have said that the recommendation of the committee on the reform of the sixth broadcasting code of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) will lead to the final collapse of the advertising industry.

Amending the NBC Code: Between a minister and a board

On July 20, 20206:15 pmIn Viewpointby Victor Ogunyinka

By Alabi Akinrogun Strange things are known to happen all the time in Nigeria, and especially in matters of governance and public policy, mostly to the detriment of the population, despite occasional bright spots. As the Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka once quipped, if he had written about these strange happenings in Nigeria as fiction
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Adesina, Elumelu, Awosika congratulate News Central TV on official launch

A nation in search of cost-based pay-TV model

On July 1, 20203:42 pmIn Technologyby Oboh

By Okoh Aihe The broadcast industry has been in the news lately. First, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the regulator of the industry released the 6th Edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code which has simmered in cacophonous responses from multi-stakeholder interests in the industry. Then, only last week, the regulator got buttoned in the National
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NBC orders DSTV to suspend new tariffs

On July 1, 20205:29 amIn Newsby Nwafor

The Acting Director General of Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Mr. Armstrong Idachaba, yesterday ordered the management of MultiChoice, to suspend the implementation of its new hiked tariffs on different bouquets on its Digital Satellite Television, DSTV.

‘Mother Hen’ NBC and the potentially stifling 6th Broadcast Code

On June 26, 202012:50 pmIn Newsby Bankole

The immediate impression one gets from interacting with the recently released 6th Code of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is that someone just might be introducing communist-style management in the country’s broadcasting landscape. Otherwise, it is almost impossible to understand what the Nigerian broadcast regulator targets to accomplish by this dangerous unitary, anti-enterprise policy that certainly will constrain innovation and organic competition in the industry.