The National Broadcasting Commission, (NBC) has suspended Channels Television with a fine of N5 million for breaching the broadcast code.
Channels had allowed the Spokesman of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Emma Powerful to have some time on its airwave, Sunday.
In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television signed by the Acting Director General of the Commission, NBC, Professor Armstrong Idachaba, the Commission referred to Channels 7 pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April 2021.
NBC accused the TV station of allowing the IPOB leader to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.
It 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.
