The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has reportedly suspended Channels Television and fined the station N5 million for allegedly breaching the broadcast 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 alluded to Channels 7 pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April 2021, in which it said the TV station allowed a leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.

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Channels.TV was further accused of allowing the guest speaker to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.

The TV station has however not reacted as at the time of going to press