NIGERIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION SANCTIONS BIG BROTHER AND 45 OTHER STATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has sanctioned popular reality TV show, BBNaija and 45 broadcasting stations for alleged breach of code in the 2nd quarter of 2019.

NBC Director General, Mallam Ishaq Kawu, made this known while addressing a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.

He said the contraventions included breaches of the rules on hate speech, abusive and inflammatory broadcast.

Kawu stressed that the Commission’s Second Quarter Monitoring of Broadcast Stations Profile was from April to June, 2019.

According to the NBC boss the use of unsubstantiated and misleading claims by advertisers especially Trado medic advertising, also dropped significantly from the last quarter, but that a total of 30 stations were fined for infractions related to same.

He added that ten broadcast stations were fined for breaches related to station announcers turning themselves to advertisers, hypers and promoters of product.

According to him, he disclosed that hate speech recorded its highest in Abuja Zone with 19.21 per cent followed by Kaduna zone with 18.22 per cent and Maiduguri Zone came third with a record of 15.27 percent while the least in hate speech was Ibadan zone with 6.89 per cent

On the issue of unprofessionalism, three zones topped the chart with the same percentage. Kaduna zone, Sokoto zone and Uyo topped the chart with 20.00 per cent each followed by Jos zone with 3.85 per cent while Ibadan and Benin recorded lowest with 2.95 per cent and 3.44 per cent respectively.