For asking Media organisation to deactivate their twitter account which is a way to gauge freedom of Information,President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Armstrong Idachaba as the Director-General of the National Broadcasting commission,(NBC).
Mr Idachaba was appointed acting Director-General of the commission replacing Modibbo Kawu who was suspended for alleged financial impropriety in February 2020.
However, on Friday, the ministry of information and culture announced the appointment of Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, a broadcaster, as the Director-General of the NBC.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced the appointment in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday.
He said Mr Ilelah’s appointment is for a tenure of five years in the first instance.
Alhaji was however silent on the reasons the president did not consider Mr Idachaba for the position in a substantive capacity which was believed must have been connected to wide circulated deactivation of twitter account.