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- 2 Jul 2020
IBAN Asks NBC to Suspend Controversial Broadcasting Code
Independent Broadcasters Association of Nigeria (IBAN) has asked the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to suspend the implementation of the amended 6th broadcasting code. Guy Murray-Bruce, the…
- 21 Feb 2012
NBC Pledges Commitment to Community Broadcasting
National Broadcasting Commission has pledged the commission’s commitment to implementing full community broadcasting in the country. The pledge came on the heels of World Radio day, a day set…
- 7 Sept 2020
Broadcast Code: NBC Should Clear Ambiguity, Iroko TV Boss
Jason Njoku, chief executive officer, IrokoTV, has called on the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to clear ambiguities in the new National Broadcasting Code by holding a broader stakeholder…
- 8 Oct 2012
NBC Approves Shared EPL Broadcast Rights
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has approved the request of Brilla Broadcasting Services Limited to share acquired rights for the English Premier League (EPL) with other broadcasting…
- 21 May 2026
STBMAN Warns of "Broadcasting Crisis", Urges Tinubu to Halt NBC’s DSO
Association of Licensed Set-Top Box Manufacturers of Nigeria (STBMAN) has warned that the unilateral implementation transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, could trigger confusion, legal…
- 7 Apr 2025
FG to Invest in Cutting-edge Broadcast Technology
Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to collaborating with key stakeholders in the global information and broadcasting…
- 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…
- 19 Oct 2009
NBC at Public Forum, Tasks Broadcasters on Quality of Content, Others
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has once again demonstrated that Nigerian citizens own the airwaves, with the gathering in Uyo of various stakeholders in that zone in the popular Public…
- 7 Jul 2020
NBC’s Broadcasting Code Strangulatory – Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka, playwright and Nobel laureate, has said that the amended 6th broadcasting code by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is economic sabotage writ large, directed against thousands…
- 16 Mar 2022
Lai Mohammed’s Loyalist Appointed NBC Board Chairman
Alhaji Lateef Bolarinwa, Chairman of the Kwara State All Progressives Congress (APC) faction loyal to Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has emerged Chairman of the Board of…
- 4 Nov 2024
Northern Broadcasters Sue Arewa 24, 7 Others over Licensing
Board of Trustees of the Northern Broadcast Media Owners Association (NBMOA) has filed a lawsuit against the broadcast company Arewa 24 Limited and seven other entities, alleging they are operating…
- 8 Sept 2015
EMCOAN, NBC Partner on Digitization
Mrs. Debbie Odutayo, president of the Electronic Media Content Owners Association of Nigeria, (EMCOAN), has expressed her satisfaction over the willingness of the National Broadcasting Commission…
- 21 Aug 2019
HURIWA Calls Out Kawu over Alleged Ethnic Cleansing at NBC
Human rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has accused Modibbo Kawu, director general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of exhibiting extreme Igbo phobia and for waging a…
- 4 Jun 2025
DSO: STBMAN Accuses NBC of Contempt, Seeks Presidential Intervention
Association of Set-Top Box Manufacturers of Nigeria (STBMAN) has accused the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of sidelining indigenous manufacturers and flouting a subsisting court order in its…
- 19 Jul 2021
HURIWA Slams NBC over Attempt to Gag Terrorism Reporting
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), rights advocacy group has condemned the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), for what it called its attempt to muzzle press freedom in the…
- 24 Mar 2022
NANS Gives MultiChoice 7-Day Ultimatum to Reduce Prices of GOtv, DStv Subscriptions
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D (South West) has given a 7-day ultimatum to MultiChoice Nigeria Limited to reverse the prices of its DStv and GOtv packages or risk having all…
- 25 May 2009
NBC Harps on Equity, Decency at Akure Forum
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) held a public forum in Akure last week, and the focus was on equity, fairness and decency as key to sustainable broadcasting. The Akure forum is third in…
- 1 Jun 2009
NBC Harps on Equity, Decency at Akure Forum
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) held a public forum in Akure last week, and the focus was on equity, fairness and decency as key to sustainable broadcasting. The Akure forum is third in…
- 7 Apr 2025
FG Begin Technical Upgrade of Government-Owned Media
Alhaji Mohammed Idris, minister of Information and National Orientation, has said that the federal government has commenced investing in cutting-edge technologies and acquiring state-of-the-art…
- 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…
- 7 Apr 2026
Broadcast Station Owners Reject IBAN’s Threat to Boycott Wike’s Media Engagements
Owners of several television and radio stations have distanced themselves from a recent threat issued by the Independent Broadcast Association of Nigeria (IBAN), which called for a boycott of media…
- 9 Jul 2018
HURIWA Calls FG Out over NBC’s N2Bn, N500m Bribe @ MTN
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), one of the nation's foremost pro-democracy and civil Rights organisations has described the recently signed executive order by President…
- 12 Jul 2020
New Broadcast Code Unworkable and Unenforceable- Okoroji
Chief Tony Okoroji, chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), has joined the stakeholders in the creative and broadcast industries calling for a revisit of the recently amended 6th edition of…
- 7 Aug 2020
Hate Speech Fine Increased to N5m to Avoid Destabilization of Nigeria- FG
The federal government increased the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5 million in the amended National Broadcasting Code, deter people deliberately violating the provision “to destabilise the…
- 21 Nov 2021
NBC Grants First DTT Licence to Royal Media Group
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has granted the first Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) station licence to Royal Media Group in Ilorin, the Kwara capital. Mr. Gbenga Adebayo, chairman,…
- 6 Mar 2017
EFCC v. Emeka Mba: The Puzzles and Contradictions
The continued prosecution of Emeka Mba, erstwhile director general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), by the Federal Government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),…
- 20 Oct 2008
Committee on Digitization Goes to Work
Federal government has inaugurated a 25-man advisory committee to ensure the smooth transition of the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. The committee is headed by Engr. Isaac Wakombo,…
- 25 Oct 2018
NBC Completes Digital Mapping of Nigeria
Malam Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), said that the commission had completed work on digital mapping of the entire country. Kawu made the…
- 2 May 2014
Pay TV Subscribers Call for Pay Per View Technology
Pay TV subscribers in Nigeria have appealed to the relevant regulatory bodies in the nation’s broadcast industry to compel Pay TV operators in the country to introduce the Pay As You View option to…
- 10 Apr 2026
STBMAN, NBC Bicker over Alleged Due Process Breaches
Association of Licensed Set-Top Box Manufacturers of Nigeria (STBMAN) has waxed worriedly over the National Broadcasting Commission’s (NBC) repeated violations of due process in managing the…