{"id":274553,"date":"2020-10-26T22:44:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=274553"},"modified":"2020-10-26T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:47:19","slug":"nigerian-government-fines-channels-ait-arise-tv-n9m-over-endsars-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=274553","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Government Fines Channels, AIT, Arise TV N9m Over #EndSARS Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The National Broadcasting Commission has fined Channels Television, AIT and Arise TV over alleged ethical infractions during the #EndSARS protests and the crisis that followed it.<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>NBC Acting Director-General, Prof Armstrong Idachaba, disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png 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=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/10\/Nigerian-Government-Fines-Channels-AIT-Arise-TV-N9m-Over-EndSARS.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Idachaba said the affected media houses were fined N3,000,000 each for flouting the provisions of the Nigerian broadcasting code.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that any station that continued to broadcast hate and inciting comments that threaten the security of the country would be shut down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"block-story-object block-story-object-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-width=\"550\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">National Broadcasting Commission Tells Media Houses Not To Embarrass Buhari&#8217;s Government With Coverage Of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENDSARS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ENDSARS<\/a> Protest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LekkitollgateMassacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LekkitollgateMassacre<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LekkiMassacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LekkiMassacre<\/a><br \/>\nFOLLOW LIVE UPDATE: https:\/\/t.co\/nShvHUMols <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MYRBohJeqK\">pic.twitter.com\/MYRBohJeqK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaharaReporters\/status\/1318823952790204416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Broadcasting Commission has fined Channels Television, AIT and Arise TV over alleged ethical infractions during the #EndSARS protests and the crisis that followed it. NBC Acting Director-General, Prof Armstrong Idachaba, disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday. Idachaba said the affected media houses were fined N3,000,000 each for flouting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274554,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2830,3],"tags":[6529,10489,5973,8828],"class_list":["post-274553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-law","category-news","tag-ait","tag-channels-tv","tag-lai-muhammad","tag-nbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274553","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=274553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}