NBC drops hammer on RayPower fm

DAAR Communications, owners of AIT/Raypower FM have been fined N500,000 by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for constant violation of the provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.

That much information was revealed by Mrs Maimuna Jimada, NBC’s Head of Public Affairs in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday.

According to Mrs Jimanda in the statement, comments made on Raypower’s programme `Political Platform’ was against the broadcasting code.

Mrs. Jimanda also added that DAAR Communications was sanctioned due to provocative, inflammatory and divisive comments by anchors of the Political Platform.

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She said; “The Political Platform episode on July 24, was marked by sensational and heated expression of opinion by its anchors, who went on to make unproven and inciting allegations. For avoidance of doubt, the Director-General drew the attention of DAAR Communications to the following provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code: (1) Section 1.9.3:

“A presenter/anchor shall not express his or her personal opinion in a programme. Also Section 5.2.7:“A broadcaster shall, in using political material for news, avoid taking inflammatory and divisive matter in its provocative form and Section 5.2.5 stated that political broadcasts shall be in decent language.”

The NBC’s Head of Public Affairs also reiterated that broadcasting stations should ensure that anchors are well trained on the ethics of the profession so as not fall short of the provisions of the broadcasting code.

 

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