Rite Foods Limited, a Nigerian Foods and Beverages Company, has filed an application of committal against the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) and its Managing Director at a Federal High Court in Lagos, for contempt of court. The Rite Foods’ application for committal states that the contemnors, the NBC and its Managing Director (MD), Mathieu Seguin,…
On Monday, the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) announced that it has fined Arise TV, AIT and Channels Television for unprofessional coverage of the #EndSARS protests that swept across the country recently. They were all fined N3 million each. The acting Director General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, said the affected stations were guilty of…
Director Generals for the six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture have been appointed. The appointments were disclosed on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, by the Federal Government via a statement issued in Abuja by Segun Adeyemi, SA to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. The six Executive Officers and their…
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has put a stop to one of the singles of Olamide entitled ‘Don’t Stop’. In a circular sent to broadcast stations in Nigeria and signed by the Director of NBC in Lagos, Mrs ‘Bunmi Cole, the supervisory body said it placed the ban on the music piece because it contains…
Director-Generals of six Federal Government’s parastatals having link with the media have been sacked. The affected heads of the agencies were removed from office by President Muhammadu Buhari. A statement issued on Monday by Segun Adeyemi, who is the Special Adviser to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed that the minister announced…
Following ‘hate messages’ being broadcast on Radio Biafra and knowing what it could lead to, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has urged Nigeria to take the messages with a pinch of salt. The broadcast regulating body in Nigeria, in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by Director, Public Affairs of the commission, Awwalu Salihu,…