The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended Channels Television for broadcasting an interview it held with the spokesperson of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The NBC said Channels Television breached a broadcast code for not moderating the utterances of IPOB’s Powerful.
In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television signed by the Acting Director General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, the Commission referred to Channels 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021, in which it accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.
It also accused the station of allowing him to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian Army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.