Interview with IPOB, NBC Suspends Channels TV.

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has suspended Channels Television with a fine of #5 million for breaching the Broadcasting code.

In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television Signed by the Acting Director General of the Commission, NBC, Prof. Armstrong idachaba, the Commission refered to Channels 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday 25th April, 2021, in which it accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB to make secessions on air without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.

It also accused the station of allowing the guest speaker to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian army, despite being proscribed by a court of the law.