The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has asked
Channels Television and Inspiration FM in Lagos to pay a fine of N5 million
each for breaching the broadcast code.
The commission had queried Channels Television after Emma
Powerful, a leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was
interviewed during one of its programmes in April.
Similarly, Inspiration FM Lagos reportedly aired a broadcast
of IPOB wherein it made “secessionist claims”.
In a statement on Thursday, Armstrong Idachaba, NBC acting
director-general, said the sections of the code breached by the stations are
“class A” offences which attracts the “immediate order of suspension of