The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has suspended Channels Television and slammed the station with a fine of N5 million fine over the interview held with spokesman of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB).
In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television signed by the Acting Director General of the Commission, NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, the Commission referred to Channels 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021, in which it accused the TV station of allowing an IPOB leader of making 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 spokesman, Emma Powerful to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.
Below is a video from the interview
