Election Coverage: NBC Sanctions NTA, AIT, Others For Breach Of Ethical Codes - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 1, 2019
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has sanctioned 45broadcast stations, including NTA, AIT, Channels and TVC News, for allegedethical infractions in relation to the 2019 general elections.
The commission’S Director-General Is’haq Modibbo Kawu whosaid this at a news conference in Abuja on Friday added that the erringstations, which cut across the country, violated provisions of the NigerianBroadcasting Code, and were fined 500 thousand naira each.
Kawu warned that any of the stations that continue tobroadcast hate and inflammatory comments that threaten the security of thecountry would be shutdown. He said that it had become necessary for NBC toissue such warning as the country move to the next elections.
He reminded all the stations that were sanctioned and thosethat were not to know that the next step NBC was going to take was to closedown any erring station.