FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Rights Agenda (MRA) announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos against the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for its refusal to act on the organization’s information request seeking details of payments of license fees by broadcasting stations and platforms operating…
by Broadcasters in Nigeria and Amount Owed by Each Station Lagos, Monday, September 12, 2022: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has asked the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to disclose to it the status of payment of license fees by all broadcasting stations and platforms operating in Nigeria and the amount of indebtedness of each of the…
Following the intervention of the Nigerian chapter of the International Press Institute, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the revocation of the operating licenses of 52 broadcast stations owing various sums in licensing fees. The NBC has now given the affected stations up to 6PM on Tuesday, August 23, to pay up their debts….
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to rescind its decision to impose fines of N5 million each on a television station and three pay TV platforms for allegedly undermining Nigeria’s national security by carrying documentaries on banditry in Nigeria, saying the regulator’s action is wrong and unjustifiable in a…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has imposed a fine of N5 million on Trust Television Network (Trust TV) over the broadcast of the documentary titled “Nigeria’s Banditry: The Inside Story”, which was aired by the station on the 5th of March, 2022. The NBC, in a letter to our company dated August 3, 2022, which…
The Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission NBC has concluded arrangements for the establishment of institute for broadcast policy and regulations in the country. Director General of the Commission Mr. Balarabe Shehu Ilelah who announced this during a media parley in Abuja said the institute is to take in the first quarter of 2022. According to the…
he National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has charged broadcasters and media owners with using their platforms to help the country win the war on insecurity. This request was made during a meeting with the CEOs of media houses in South West, Nigeria. Balarabe shehu illela, the commission’s new Director General, charged everyone with ensuring that the…
Lagos, Tuesday, August 17, 2021: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja challenging the legal authority of the broadcast regulatory body, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), to regulate and license social media platforms in Nigeria or to determine whether a broadcasting station is patriotic or not. In…
The Socio-Economic Rights and AccountabilityProject (SERAP) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, over the order stopping journalists and broadcast stations from reporting details of terrorist attacks and victims. They are asking the court to declare…
