By our Reporter
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has slammed Channels Television with a suspension and N5 million for breaching the broadcast code.
According to a letter signed by Prof. Armstrong Idachaba,the Acting Director-General of the Commission, NBC, the Commission to the Managing Director,Channels Television referred to Channels 7 pm 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 contrary to the broadcast code.
The commision also accused the station of allowing the guest speaker to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.