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National Broadcasting Commission has fined Channels Television N5 million for breaching the broadcast code.
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, April 25, 2021 and accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.
The commission also accused the station of allowing the guest speaker to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian army, despite that IPOB is prescribed by a court of law.