₦airaland Forum

By Emmanuel Acha
Ahead of the forthcoming elections, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it will impose heavy sanctions on broadcast stations which promote hate speeches.
The Director General of the commission, Mr Is’haq Kawu, said this on Thursday in Enugu at the inauguration of Family Love FM 99.9 at the European Quarters in Ngwo.
Kawu was represented at the event by a director in the commission, Mr Armstrong Idachaba.
He said that the commission had taken note of hate speeches from some parts of the country, adding that it would guard against its infiltration in the broadcast industry.
“We are already seeing signs of hate speeches among Nigerians and would not tolerate it in the broadcast industry as we prepare for the 2019 elections.
“Our broadcast stations should rather be used to engender tolerance, mutual respect as well as promote unity among Nigerians,” he said.
Kawu said that the broadcast industry had witnessed tremendous growth in the last few years owing to the complete deregulation of the sector.
He said that there were about 800 radio stations in the country, adding that what was expected of them was healthy competition.
“We now have a very competitive private sector that is experiencing great growth.
“Competition in the sector now has multiplier effects in the country in terms of job creation and education.
“The competition among the various players in the industry must continue to be friendly, ‘’ Kawu said.
Earlier in an address of welcome, the Group Managing Director of Multimesh Broadcasting Company Ltd., Mr Godfrey Ohuabunwa, said that company was conceived 32 years ago.
Ohuabunwa said that the station would usher in a new dimension to broadcasting in the South East Zone of Nigeria.
“Our passion for broadcasting has its roots on the need to affect the society that is virtually derailing from basic tenets of upright living and morality.
“This decay has affected our society much so that there seem not to be value for life, stewardship and right standing with God,” he said.
He said that programmes of the station were structured toward the improvement of family values and standards.
Ohuabunwa appealed to regulators in the industry to provide a level playing ground and opportunities for private sector participation in the industry.
He also appealed to relevant government agencies to review downwards customs duties and taxes payable on communication and broadcast equipment for greater results.
“One of the problems which has continued to bedevil this industry is the cost of operations and roll out,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the company is also licensed as a private cable satellite broadcasting company and one of the biggest satellite distribution Pay TV companies.
It also has a radio station in Rivers, Abia and Abuja. (NAN)
source::http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2017/08/hate-speeches-nbc-impose-heavy.html

We should learn one thing, Hate Speech portrays the weakness in us.

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Buhari introduced hate speech in da ZOO


monkey and baboon and so many of his negative utterance

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Hope y'all will extend the sanction to Facebook, WhatsApp BR, and every other social media platform?

Miscreants wanting to promote hate don't go to broadcasting stations again, they do it in the comfort of their bedrooms.

Arewa youths must be arrested
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Bark and no bite.

Show me one station they have sanctioned!

Government that was founded and built on the foundations of lies,deceit and propaganda is pained on how the arrow they shot has reversed back to them.

You cannot gag Nigerians and the media from saying what they feel is right or criticizing,which is one of the ingredients of democratic governance.

Anyway I will take them serious when they are able to shut down their nightmare, Radio Biafra.

We all talking about hate speech but non had been able to define it, do you call it hate because I said the truth, if I say buhari has no integrity and anti-south,do you call that hate speech when all indices of his governance are geared in that direction. Those quite while oppressed are supporters injustice.

No matter the approach, APC will still lose the 2019.

Pmb should first stop the hate speech from him and his tribe. Likewise his body language on civil servants appointment to his zone is bad. What he said during the last election is coming to pass concerning lopsided appointment by his government. It won't help him this way. He's dividing Nigerians by the day with his body odour.

Nairaland should be among those to be heavily sanctioned. When they cough out N50m fine, they'll step up their work.

hate speech is part of democracy and I don't need to go to broadcasting station to cast my hate speech I do it comfortably inside my house

Hizzy:
hate speech is part of democracy
and I don't need to go to broadcasting station to cast my hate speech
I do it comfortably inside my house

abi now. At least the FG won't come to your house and arrest you for your hate speech.

Daviddson:
Nairaland should be among those to be heavily sanctioned. When they cough out N50m fine, they'll step up their work.

is it not the same nairaland medium that you are using to pass out your argument here.