NBC Slaps Nigeria Info With N5M Fine For Airing Malaifia’s Comments On Terrorism

The National Broadcasting Commission has on Thursday, August 13, fined a radio station, Nigeria Info, the sum of
N5 million for airing comments made by a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailaifia, on terrorism in the country.

Recall that Mailafia had granted an interview, revealing during the radio programme that repentant Boko Haram members told him a serving Northern governor was a commander of the terrorist group.

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He also revealed that the Terrorists planned to start a civil warn in the southern part of Nigeria.

In a statement signed by the management of the organisation, the NBC management described the broadcast as “unprofessional”.

“The National Broadcasting Commission has noted with grave concern, the unprofessional conduct of Nigeria Info 99.3FM, Lagos, in the handling of the programme ‘Morning CrossFire’ aired on August 10, 2020, between 8.30am and 9.00am.

“The station provided its platform for the guest, Dr Mailafia Obadiah, to promote unverifiable and inciting views that could encourage or incite crime and lead to public disorder. “Dr Mailafia Obadiah’s comments on the Southern Kaduna crisis were devoid of facts and by broadcasting the same to the public, Nigeria Info 99.3FM, is in violation of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.

“In line with the amendment of the 6th edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, Nigeria Info 99.3FM Lagos, has been fined the sum of N5,000,000.00 (Five Million Naira), only.

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“This is expected to serve as a deterrent to all other broadcast stations in Nigeria who are quick to provide a platform for subversive rhetoric and the expositions of spurious and unverifiable claims, to desist from such,” the statement read.