NBC Sanctions 19 Broadcast Stations Across the Country Over 716 Infractions
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), released the breach profile of broadcast stations for the second quarter of 2020 on November 25, 2020 The report compiled quarterly by the Directorate of Broadcast Monitoring of the NBC is from weekly reports filed by the 10 zonal and 25 state offices of the commission that monitor over 600 functional broadcast stations in the country. The release by the NBC showed that 716 infractions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code were sanctioned between April and June 2020. The NBC said out of the 716 infractions sanctioned, only 22 made up of three percent of the numbers were financial penalty. “The remaining 694 (97 percent) were either cautions or warnings for obscenity, political, hate speech, unverifiable claims, unprofessionalism, advertisements and technical breaches. “Advertisement breaches were the dominant infractions for the quarter accounting for 51 percent of all sanctions, followed by unverifiable claims to cure by t