Tag: National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)

The three stations fined were Adaba FM and Breeze FM, all in Akure, as well as Albarka FM, Ilorin.

This is coming months after the ICPC urged the federal government to suspend the Mr Kawu, and 32 others.

Mr Modibbo and two others are facing trial over allegations of fraud in the Digital Switch Over project of the ...

Lai Mohammed was to appear as a prosecution witness before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Mr Mohammed was scheduled to appear before a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, as a prosecution witness.

The former NBC chief is among those being prosecuted for the alleged fraud.

Mr Kawu and the government officials are currently undergoing trial in different courts.

ICPC is prosecuting the DG NBC, Ishaq Kawu, and two others for alleged abuse of office and money laundering.

Overall, the faceoff between NBC and DAAR Communications raises the urgent imperative of reviewing the NBC Act, which was enacted ...

Civil liberties advocates believe the government's action has crossed the line between regulation and suppression of speech.

Mr Dokpesi alleged that some security agencies have threatened him with the “Okadigbo treatment”.

NBC closed the Jos-based radio station on March 1

A digital switch-over payment approved by the information minister in 2017 is now a subject of criminal prosecution by federal ...

Anti-graft detectives are resisting suspected high-wired politics that threatens another corruption case involving a senior Buhari administration official.

The Commission says it took the decision to renew GOTV operational licence due to the intervention of ONSA.

Mr Buhari stated this rejection in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

Such development does not speak well of the government."

The organisation said the action by the NBC “amounts to illegal restrictions on media freedom."

The minister says he is not running for any elective office in 2019

Daar said NBC had demanded it should support the government in power.

The regulator accuses the programme of "provocative, inflammatory and divisive comments".

The station is to pay N500,000 in fine.

The D-G said the station had not been been meeting ethical standard of broadcasting.

The lawmakers want political parties to limit their discussions to their manifestoes

The switch over in Ilorin is the third since inauguration in Jos, Plateau State