The Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mallam Ishaq Kawu, revealed during the week that the commission has sanctioned about 45 broadcasting stations and cautioned producers of the reality show, Big Brother Naija against broadcasting “unwholesome contents” in the country.
According to him, they were sanctioned for allegedly breaching NBC’s code.
Listing the NBC rules to journalists in Abuja, Kawu said such programmes contravenes the commission’s rules on hate speech, abusive, obscene and vulgar lyrics including inflammatory broadcast.
He said, “Thus as many as 45 stations were fined, the second quarter indicates that the trend has continued among certain stations especially in political programmes.
“Therefore 20 stations were fined in the 2nd Quarter, for breaching provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code on hate speech.
“Other breaches were in the area of obscene and vulgar lyrics – a total of 10 stations were fined for infractions related to use of vulgar lyrics and obscene content.
“It is worth mentioning that the programme Big Brother Naija was cautioned against unwholesome content on its broadcast.”
