Insurgency: NBC Orders Radio, TV Stations To Stop Reporting ‘Details’ Of Attacks - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (A.M)
July 16, 2021
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has directed broadcast stations in Nigeria to stop reporting the details of attacks by bandits and insurgents.
NBC director of broadcast monitoring Francisca Aiyetan said in a letter to broadcast said there is a need for caution as too many details may have an adverse implication on the efforts of our security officials who are duty-bound to deal with the insurgency.
NBC urged broadcast stations to be guided by provisions of sections 5.4.1(f) and 5.4.3 of the NBC Code which states that “the broadcaster shall not transmit divisive materials that may threaten or compromise the divisibility and indissolubility of Nigeria as a sovereign state.
The commission advised broadcasters to apply caution in their reportage as divulging “too many details” may have an adverse effect on the efforts of the Nigerian security agencies.
The NBC said some of the topics discussed during daily newspaper reviews have “ethnological coating” which pitches “one section of the country against the other and leaving Nigerians in daily hysteria.”