The National Broadcasting Commission Friday suspend the shutdown of the indebted broadcast stations all over the country temporarily.

The regulatory agency said that the decision to suspend its initial shutdown of the indebted stations followed the responses received from the affected stations.

The NBC Director General, Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, announced the suspension in a statement on Friday.

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The PUNCH had last Friday reported that NBC directed 52 broadcast outfits, including the African Independent Television, Silverbird Television and the broadcasting corporations run by various state governments to shut down their operations.

NBC hinged its directive on debts incurred by the broadcasting organisations amounting to at least N2.6bn.

But in a statement on Friday, Ilelah maintained that positive responses received from the debtor licensees, including big players in the broadcast industry was responsible for the temporary suspension.
 
The statement read, “Sequel to a follow-up meeting held with Executives of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria, and other critical Stakeholders in the industry, the Commission has decided to temporarily suspend the shutdown of the indebted Broadcast stations all over the Country.
 
“We express our profound appreciation to the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, the affected licensees and Broadcast Stakeholders for their responses and interventions. We, specifically, thank DAAR Communications Ltd and Silverbird TV/Rhythm FM for their responses.
 
“The Commission is not unaware of the difficulties this shutdown must have caused the operators and other stakeholders but must state that the Commission will always operate within the National Broadcasting Commission Act, Cap. N11, Laws of the Federation, 2004.”


https://punchng.com/nbc-suspends-shutdown-of-debtor-broadcast-stations/

We are in a Junta.

The NBC under the directive of the kunú guzzling drunkard called buhari, should think properly before coming to the public to issue threats.

We are all afraid of decree 2 and 4 of 1984.... ...

After 23 years of democracy this agency has refused to adapt to the new system of govt.

Seun:
After 23 years of democracy this agency has refused to adapt to the new system of govt. Shame on them.

Some of your moderators here also act like the NBC... They dish out ban recklessly without having a thorough check.

Kindly advise them to adapt to your new and improved system.


Remain Everly Blessed as you do so...

God bless Peter Obi

God bless Chief James Onanefe Ibori...

God bless Delta State.

Seun:
After 23 years of democracy this agency has refused to adapt to the new system of govt. Shame on them.

And why do you Nigerians claim you're desirous of a civilized society where rules and regulations are strictly adhered to, YET, find no fault in people breaking the law?

Why should broadcasters operate without the renewal of their lisenses? Isn't that akin to driving with an expired driver's license? Will your site keep running if you don't duly pay your hosts?

Perhaps you might wanna shed some light on what you perceive as the propriety in the action of the alleged offenders. Maybe then I could see reason in you criticizing the regulators.

omenka:
And why do you Nigerians claim you're desirous of a civilized society where rules and regulations are strictly adhered to, YET, find no fault in people breaking the law?

Why should broadcasters operate without the renewal of their lisenses? Isn't that akin to driving with an expired driver's license? Will your site keep running if you don't duly pay your hosts?

Perhaps you might wanna shed some light on what you perceive as the propriety in the action of the alleged offenders. Maybe then I could see reason in you criticizing the regulators.

Omenka is here.....

omenka:
And why do you Nigerians claim you're desirous of a civilized society where rules and regulations are strictly adhered to, YET, find no fault in people breaking the law?

Why should broadcasters operate without the renewal of their lisenses? Isn't that akin to driving with an expired driver's license? Will your site keep running if you don't duly pay your hosts?

Perhaps you might wanna shed some light on what you perceive as the propriety in the action of the alleged offenders. Maybe then I could see reason in you criticizing the regulators.

You may want to “renew” the spelling of licenses...

Interesting

tivta:
Interesting

Very indeed....

Seun:
After 23 years of democracy this agency has refused to adapt to the new system of govt.

Hmm....