The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), says a media station Biafra Television, purportedly owned by the Indigenous People of Biafra, is transmitting illegally on Nigeria airwaves.


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While speaking with journalists at an interactive session in Ilorin, Kwara state on Tuesday, Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, the director-general of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), revealed that a media station, Biafra Television, is transmitting illegally on Nigeria airwaves.

Kawu who revealed that the TV station is purportedly owned by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), also said the Boko Haram insurgent group had commenced radio transmission via a station located between Nigerian and Cameroonian borders .

He said that while security agencies have been able to stop the Boko Haram-owned station from transmission, Biafra Television is yet to be blocked.

Kawu said this is as a result of the international transmission system with which the station is using.

He warned against revolutionary transmission, saying such unlawful act could threaten the Nigeria’s unity.

“Last week, I was in the office of the inspector-general of police and they had a TV screen and what was being broadcast was on Biafra Television; they were saying some of the most outlandish things, showing videos from the 1960 s and abusing everyone,” he said.

“Now, this is happening and they were asking us (NBC) because our duty is to monitor and regulate such but the television is coming from outside of Nigeria.

“Our engineers have been making contacts with the international satellite organisation that does broadcast to Africa about the fact that you cannot allow subversive broadcast into Nigeria from other parts of the world.

“The Biafra Television in the south-east, we have been tracking the station. The broadcast is coming from outside Nigeria . We have been asking questions from international satellite test systems where they are coming from. That is how it is for now.

“Last June, Boko Haram was starting a new radio station, I think on 91 .00 megahertz on the FM band from the border between Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon and so it was our duty to inform security organisations what was happening so they could take it up and which they did eventually.”

He further said the commission is currently owed about N3bn and that stations yet to pay their fees risk getting shut down.

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this guy sounds like a failure and a blame shifter, international broadcast indeed. failures.

So that's how those who have talking of war plans to defeat Biafra by seeking help from international community the same people the igbos are already dealing with. Funny. This should demonstrate to Nigeria that it stands no chance of winning a war with the igbos. Never. Common boko haram all they do is tell us sambisa forest is seven times the size of lagos. Imagine. If Syria is still at war with the kind of military it possess then what can Nigeria with outdated arms and unprofessional military do?
Nigeria must reform to stay together. It has restructure soonest.

Biafra giving them headache from all angles

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go and search for Nnamdi Kanu broadcast on 2014 when nigeria started trying to jam radio biafra,nnamdi said that it will only take biafrans engineers to bring down radio biafra that nigeria can do what ever they like.since they no fit jam radio biafra abi na biafra tv station they fit.