Director of the NBC, Modibo Kawu Photo: Twitter/@nbcgovng
DAAR Communications (owners of AIT and Raypower FM) have been fined N500,000 by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over alleged persistent violation of the provisions of the NBC Code.
NBC Head of Public Affair, Maimuna Jimada, in a statement issued on Saturday, said comments made on Raypower’s ‘Political Platform’ were against the broadcasting code.
Jimada stated that the organization was sanctioned due to provocative, inflammatory and divisive comments by anchors of progamme.
She stated that the Commission on May 2, 2017, Aug. 15, 2017 and February 2018, held meetings with staff of DAAR Communications to caution them on the unprofessional manner of anchors of the programme.
“The Political Platform episode on July 24, was marked by sensational and heated expression of opinion by its anchors, who went on to make unproven and inciting allegations.
“For avoidance of doubt, the Director-General drew the attention of DAAR Communications to the following provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code: (1) Section 1.9.3:
“A presenter/anchor shall not express his or her personal opinion in a programme.
“Also Section 5.2.7: ‘A broadcaster shall, in using political material for news, avoid taking inflammatory and divisive matter in its provocative form and Section 5.2.5 stated that political broadcasts shall be in decent language,” she said.