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The bill says any person who does that ‘‘commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of five million naira or to a term of three years imprisonment or both…”  The amendment further prescribes penalties against journalists and media houses accused and found of libel or slander by the Press Council. The amendments to the NBC Act aim at entrenching licensing, censorship and stringent fines for violators of its Code, bringing “online news related licenses,”  “Internet broadcasting (Webcast)” and the blanket clause of “any other class of licenses as may be determined by the Commission” into its area of regulation.

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