Global human rights body, Amnesty International, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari's government was characterised with media and journalists suppression, violation of activists’ freedom of expression and peaceful assembly . The AI stated this in its 2022 report where it pointed out that the National Broadcasting Commission suspended some broadcast stations and programmes for alleged violation of broadcast code.
Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services, DSS, has arrested and detained a radio worker in Imo State, Casmir Uzomah, for the past two months without trial. Uzomah, a staff member of the Orient Radio-Television Station, which is managed by the Imo State Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), was reportedly arrested for playing a song considered “offensive” to the Governor of the state, Hope Uzodinma, via the station. IBC is a media outfit owned by the State Government and Uzomah works in the technical department of the station.