{"id":124506,"date":"2019-06-07T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T20:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=124506"},"modified":"2019-06-07T21:25:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T20:25:42","slug":"breaking-court-nullifies-suspension-of-ait-ray-power-by-broadcasting-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=124506","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Court nullifies suspension of AIT, Ray Power by broadcasting regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BREAKING-Court-Nullifies-AIT-Ray-Power-Suspension-By-Broadcasting-Regulators.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has nullified the suspension of operating license of Daar Communications PLC, operator of AIT and Ray Power.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ekwo, while delivering the order, gave the federal government and NBC till May 30, 2019 to revert the ban on Daar Communications PLC.<\/p>\n<p>The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, had, Thursday, suspended the operating license of the Daar Communications PLC, operator of AIT and Ray Power over alleged breach of the NBC\u2019s broadcasting code.<\/p>\n<p>However, In an ex parte application, Daar Communications PLC, had, through its lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), on Thursday, asked the court to order the Commission to revert its ban.<br \/>\nDaar Communications PLC, In the suit against the NBC, the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, and the Attorney General of the Federation, Daar claimed that did not breach any broadcast code.<\/p>\n<p>It asked the court to grant its prayers in \u201crestraining the defendants from blocking, jamming, stopping removing from air and\/or interfering with the air waves of the plaintiff\/applicant (Daar Plc) in any way and manner however called from invading the premises of the plaintiff\/applicant (Daar Plc) or closing down, viet armis, the said premises, its operations or broadcast services, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed along with this application.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has nullified the suspension of operating license of Daar Communications PLC, operator of AIT and Ray Power. Ekwo, while delivering the order, gave the federal government and NBC till May 30, 2019 to revert the ban on Daar Communications PLC. The National Broadcasting Commission, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3,4],"tags":[6529,12346],"class_list":["post-124506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","category-politics","tag-ait","tag-ray-power"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}