BREAKING: NBC Suspends Channels TV For Speaking With IPOB

Channels Television has been suspended by the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC with a fine of N5 million for breaching the broadcast code.

The Acting Director General of the Commission, NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, signed a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television Commission referring to Channels 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021, in which it condemned the TV station of allowing a leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB to make secessionist and igniting statements on air without warning or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.

The broadcast station was also accused of allowing the guest speaker to make derogatory, false and deceptive statements about the Nigerian army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.