Non-release of funds frustrating NBC projects, Board chairman tells Reps
The Chairman, Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Alhaji Ikra Aliyu Bilbis, has opened up on why activities of the Commission had been in comatose for some years now. In his remarks in his remarks, during a strategic meeting…
Lai Mohammed’s NBC reform report silent on DSO, DG
Industry experts have started picking holes on the recently submitted Report of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Reform Implementation Committee in Abuja to Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, following the observed oversight that it failed to make…
Tracing origin of the cold war between Lai Muhammed and DG of NBC
By Abba Gana Shehuri In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. All praises be to Allah. One of the most interesting developments of recent times, was the return of many of the previous ministers to their positions, when…
Time for Lai Mohammed to leave NBC DG, Kawu alone to do his job
By Adelanwa Olajubu I have followed the affairs of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over the past two decades, because of the role it plays in regulating broadcasting in our country. I believe NBC came at the right time when…
PayTV operators to end carriage of free terrestrial TV channels soon—NBC
The Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, has disclosed that the days of Pay TV operators carrying free terrestrial TV channels are getting numbered. Addressing the media in his office recently in Abuja, he revealed…
Just in: NBC restores AIT, Raypower’s suspended licence
The Nigerian broadcast regulatory agency, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Friday announced the withdrawal of the suspension of operating licence of Daar Communications Plc, owners of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower 100.5FM. This was the outcome of consultative meetings…
For national interest, industry stakeholders resolve NBC, Daar Comms impasse
Truce came the way of warring National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and Daar Communications Group, operators of AIT TV and Raypower Radio Sunday as industry elders and patrons returned both parties to a round table. Recall that NBC had last week,…
Before ICPC suit against NBC DG, two others ends like suit against SEC DG
No doubt, since the beginning of the suit filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) against the leadership of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) late last year, there had been serious drawback on the hitherto…
ICPC suit against NBC, Pinnacle disrupting DSO process—Stakeholders
Since the beginning of the suit filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) against the leadership of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) late last year, there had been serious drawback on the hitherto excellent speed…
NBC, firm to achieve TV connectivity using free rural broadband Internet
Considering the existence of TV White Space which refers to unused broadcasting frequencies in the wireless spectrum, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a private firm, Corrido Communications Limited to the window in connecting…