The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Monday dragged the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to court for imposing a N3 million fine each on three television stations...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), 261 concerned Nigerians, civil society and media groups have filed a lawsuit against the National Broadcasting Commission [NBC] and Minister...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the clampdown on major broadcast stations including AIT, Channels and the ARISE TV by the National Broadcast Commission (NBC)....
Three television channels, Arise, Channels and AIT have been accused of unprofessional coverage of EndSARS protest and fined N3 million each. They were accused and fined...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has raised eyebrows over the flagrant flouting of COVID-19 protocols by politicians in Ondo State ahead of the forthcoming governorship election...
Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP) for the second quarter 2020 shrank by 6.10 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. The GDP which measures...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has been sued in court for allegedly arbitrarily amending the Broadcast Code and increasing the fine for hate...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has reeled out eight guidelines for political broadcasts ahead of the forthcoming Edo and Ondo State elections. The guidelines which came...
A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana has condemned the imposition of N5 million on a radio station by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)....
The Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Thursday accused Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, of amending the country’s broadcasting code without due...
The National Broadcasting Commission has sanctioned a radio station, Nigeria Info, N5m for a recent remark by a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Adamu Adaji as the Director-General of the National Boundary Commission. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation,...
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, said on Tuesday the Federal Government had declared war on arts and its producers following the amendment of the broadcasting code...
Cable TV service providers, MultiChoice has been ordered by the federal government of Nigeria to suspend the implementation of its new hiked tariffs on different bouquets...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has commenced the implementation of the reforms approved by President Muhammadu Buhari to strengthen NBC’s regulatory role and make it more...
A Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Mojisola Giwa-Ogunbanjo, on Wednesday struck out the application of Patrick Are, who is the second defendant in...
Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, will be appearing before a Federal High Court in Abuja to explain his role in the payment of...
Nigerians were either in their various homes, stadia, shopping malls, amusement centres or other places of their choice, because the federal government declared Wednesday, June 12,...
The face-off between DAAR Communications Plc., owners of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has been resolved after a...
The Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), in the evening of June 6, 2019, suspended, indefinitely, the broadcasting operations of Raymond Dokpesi’s DAAR Communications PLC which operates Africa...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended Friday’s court order in the ongoing case between DAAR communications and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), stating that the...
Less than 24 hours after restoring the licences of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Ray Power FM, the National Broadcasting Commission has lamented that they have...
Hours after the reopening of offices of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM, policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) reportedly laid...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the suspension of the operating licence of DAAR Communications, owners of African Independent Television and Raypower FM, describing the...
A human rights and constitutional lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome has berated President Muhammadu Buhari’s government over the suspension placed on AIT/Ray power stations by the National...
Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Moddibbo Kawu, will be docked on Wednesday over his alleged complicity in the misappropriation of the N2.5...
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has launched a video on demand platform, PLAYVOD, as part of its digital switchover activities. The platform was launched by the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has requested the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC to probe the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai...
Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) has been enmeshed in a corruption scandal of N2.5 billion. The money is questions was a seed grant the Federal Government released...
Despite the controversy generated by its release and its eventual ban by the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Falz’s video ‘This is Nigeria’ has surpassed 15 million...
The demolition of the Music House, the building housing Fresh FM 109.5, Ibadan owned by gospel singer Yinka Ayefele has been condemned by the National Broadcasting...
DAAR Communications, owners of AIT/Raypower FM have been fined N500,000 by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for constant violation of the provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting...
The federal government has through the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) ordered the immediate shutdown of the Ekiti Broadcast Service (EBS) for allegedly breaching provisions of the...
For the umpteenth time, the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) has ordered radio stations in Nigeria not to air two songs recently released by YBNL’s Olamde titled...
The Nigerian Army has said that its troops fighting Boko Haram in the North East on Friday dealt decisively with remnants of the terrorists hibernating in...
The Federal Government on Friday directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to sanction broadcasting organizations that allows commentators use incendiary language or violate other Broadcast Codes....
The Senate has revealed that it will soon commence investigations into the alleged misappropriation of over N1.2 billion by the leadership of the National Broadcasting Commission...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has said that would heavily sanction broadcast stations that engage in or facilitate hate speech especially as the build-up to the...
The Nigerian National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has warned against the airing of offensive songs and has also denied banning tracks waxed by Olamide, Davido and 9ice....
No less than five songs from three different artistes deemed unworthy by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) have been banned from being aired on national radio...
A bid by the Nigerian Bottling Company to stay a court order on two of its products, Fanta and Sprite have hit a brick wall. The...
There are allegations emanating from the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), that a former director-general of the commission, Emeka Mba and his sympathisers still within, may be...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to investigate the operations of the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited to ascertain the safety of its soft drinks for...
Following a Lagos High Court judgement on the unsafety of Fanta and Sprite, two products of Nigerian Bottling Company Plc (NBC), when taken with Vitamin C,...
Some consumer advocacy groups in the country have threatened to institute a class-action suit against the Nigerian Bottling Company if it is established that an infraction...
There is controversy surrounding a suit filed at the Lagos High court for which judgment was recently delivered involving the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Limited, makers...
No less than 54 broadcast stations have had their licenses revoked after refusing to pay mandatory fees within the 60-day window permitted under the law by...
Amid growing calls by Nigerians criticising the Big Brother Naija show over its immoral and explicit scenes, a non-governmental organisation identified as CitizenGO has called on...
The organisers of the second edition of Big Brother Naija reality TV show have issued offered explanations why the show is being staged outside Nigeria. The...
An inquiry into the shooting of the second edition of Big Brother Naija has been ordered by the Federal Government after it directed the National Broadcasting...
