Channels TV ‘apologises’ to NBC for breach of broadcasting code

Channels TV has apologized to the management of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC for its recent breach of broadcasting code.

Following the interview of the spokesperson of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Emma Powerful, the broadcasting regulatory body recently sent a letter of caution to the television house.

According to the NBC’s Director of Public Affairs, Franca Aiyetan, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), she said the station had apologised while she explained that the commission’s letter to the TV station was a regulatory instrument to check the excesses of the station.

According to Aiyetan, the NBC wrote a letter asking Channels TV to explain why it gave credence to the spokesman of the proscribed organisation who according to her “made lots of allusion that were not true, that are inciting and inimical to the peace of the society that could cause unrest”.

Aiyetan further added that the intent of the letter was neither to close down nor sanction the station, rather it was meant to draw the station’s attention to its breach of the broadcasting code, adding that “the station has accordingly apologised”, she said