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- 21 Mar 2021
Lagos to Exit Analogue Broadcasting April 29- NBC DG
Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, acting director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has commended ITS Ltd and their partners, StarTimes, for putting in place the required transmitters,…
- 10 Jun 2021
NBC Formally Asks Facebook, Instagram, Others to Register or be Outlawed
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has officially asked social media platforms to register with it or be outlawed in Nigeria. Armstrong Idachaba, acting director-general, NBC issued the…
- 14 Apr 2021
NBC Boss Commends Buhari over DSO Roll Out
Prof. Aduku Armstrong Idachaba, acting director-general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the successes recorded by the commission in its Digital…
- 21 Feb 2020
NBC Planning to Checkmate Monopoly – DG
Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, acting director-general (DG) of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has said the the organisation is committed to effective reforms and regulations to checkmate…
- 11 Oct 2023
NBC Says Social Media is a ‘Monster’, Presses for Bill to Regulate Use
Mr. Balarabe Ilelah, director-general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has expressed concerns over the current legal framework, which does not grant the NBC the authority to regulate social…
- 5 Dec 2021
NBC Code to Protect Nigerians from Harm –Idachaba
Professor Armstrong Idachaba, former acting director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has said the code of the regulatory agency is mainly to protect broadcast programme…
- 24 Jan 2019
ICPC Charges NBC Boss, Others with N2.5Bn Fraud
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has filed charges against Is’haq Kawu Modibbo, director-general, National Broadcasting Commission(NBC) and three others over…
- 30 Nov 2020
New Broadcast Code is to Kill Idea of Exclusivity- NBC Boss
Professor Armstrong Idachaba, director-general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has said that the commission is pressing forward with the controversial amendment to the country’s broadcasting…
- 16 Jun 2020
NBC Warns Operators against Vulgar, Indecent Contents
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has warned operators against unwholesome content in the free satellite transmission in the country. Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, acting director-general of the…
- 1 Jul 2020
FG Re-arraigns Suspended NBC Boss over Alleged N2.5Bn Fraud
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Wednesday re-arraigned Ishaq Modibbo- Kawu, the suspended director-general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) at the…
- 17 Jun 2020
Angst as NBC Defends Controversial Broadcasting Code
Operators and experts are expressing anger and frustration over the provisions of the 6th edition of the Broadcasting Code Amendment as issued by National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), that…
- 13 Aug 2020
NBC Board Says Broadcast Code is Illegality Perpetrated by Lai Mohammed
Alhaji Ikra Aliyu Bilbis, chairman of the Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has described the 6th National Broadcasting Code as an illegality perpetrated by Alhaji Lai Mohammed,…
- 6 Jul 2020
Controversial Broadcasting Code Tears NBC Board, Management Apart
The board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has insisted the controversial sixth edition of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code must be reviewed. The board had penultimate Friday placed…
- 11 Jun 2021
Just in... Buhari Appoints Balarabe Shehu Ilelah as New NBC DG
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, a veteran broadcaster, as the director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of…
- 7 Jun 2021
Breaking….FG Orders all Broadcast Stations to Go Off Twitter
Federal Government has directed all broadcast stations in the country to go off Twitter with immediate effect. Armstong Idachaba, director-general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), gave the…
- 8 Jun 2017
NBC Says Biafra Tv Illegal, Unable to Shut Down Station
Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, director-general of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has said that a media station, Biafra Television, is transmitting illegally on Nigeria airwaves. The TV station…
- 10 Feb 2020
NBC Boss Tells Court Has No Case Against Us in N2.5Bn DSO Trial
Ishaq Kawu Modibbo, director-general of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC); Pinnacle Communications Ltd, and two others, on Monday told Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo- Giwa of the Federal High Court…
- 27 Feb 2019
ICPC to Arraign NBC Boss, Others over Alleged N2.5Bn Fraud
Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed March 12 for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to arraign Mr Ishaq Modibbo, director-general of the National…
- 10 Jun 2019
NGO Accuses Modibbo, NBC DG of Issuing Self, Others Radio Licenses
Coalition Against Corruption and Bad Governance (CACOBAG) has alleged that Ishag Kawu Modibbo, director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) approved 16 illegal slots of radio…
- 13 Mar 2019
Alleged N2.5Bn Fraud: Court Orders NBC Boss to Appear ‘Even on Stretcher’
Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered Mr Abdullahi Mustapha (SAN), to produce Kawu Modibbo, director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), in court on the next adjourned date of…
- 24 Aug 2018
HURIWA Seeks Probe of NBC DG, Claims Buhari Blackmailing Media
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a non-governmental organization, has accused the Alhaji Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, director general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of being a…
- 28 Sept 2020
FG Offers to Support TStv to Relaunch with Pay per View Model
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has pledged to give necessary support to TStv Africa as the indigenous digital satellite TV service begins full operation with pay per view model on October 1,…
- 28 Nov 2024
Federal High Court Strikes Down NBC’s 2.5% Gross Income Levy on MultiChoice
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court Abuja has struck down Section 2 (10) (b) of the National Broadcasting Code, 6th Edition, which required broadcasters to pay 2.5% of their “Gross…
- 11 Nov 2020
#EndSARS: NBC Cautions TV Stations, Threatens to Raise Fine
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has cautioned broadcast stations in the country to independently verify the authenticity of information sourced on the social media before dissemination to the…
- 16 Mar 2020
FG Shuts Down Firms Pirating Broadcast Signals of DStv, Others
Three broadcasting facilities engaged in pirating the broadcast signals of several right owners including Star Times, Communications Trends Nigeria Limited (CTL) and MultiChoice Nigeria (MCN) have…
- 29 Nov 2016
Alleged N2.9Bn Scam: Trial of Mba, ex-NBC Boss, Begins Dec 13
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), the nod to dock Mr. Emeka Mba, immediate past director-general of the National Broadcasting…
- 15 May 2023
MRA Urges NBC to Obey Court Order Restraining Imposition of Fines on Broadcast Stations
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to comply fully with the orders of Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja which restrained it…
- 28 Sept 2021
FG Approves 159 New Radio, TV Stations
President Muhammadu Buhari has granted approval to 159 companies, communities and institutions of higher learning to operate radio and television stations. Malam Balarabe Ilelah, director-general,…
- 16 Jun 2021
IPC, CSOs Kick against Proposed Tariff Regulation for Satellite TV
International Press Centre (IPC), as well as civil society organisations (CSOs), have rejected the proposed tariff regulations for satellite television in the new National Broadcasting Commission…
- 1 Nov 2020
SERAP, Others Sue Mohammed, NBC, for Fines on Channels, AIT, Arise TV
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), 261 involved Nigerians, civil society and media teams have filed a lawsuit in opposition to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and…