By Tayo Alabi
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined three broadcast station for their reports on COVID-19.
The commission considered their report inappropriate.
SINL Nigeria reports that another 25 stations were also sanctioned and fined for other various offences in the first quarter of 2020.
The Acting Director General, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, made the disclosure this while briefing the media on the amendment to the broadcast code and other issues.
The stations sanctioned on the account of their report on COVID-19 are Breeze FM and Adaba FM in Akure, Ondo state.
Adaba station, it was also learnt, was sanctioned twice.
They are to pay N250,000 for the offences. Ababa will pay twice.
On the broadcast code, the DG said it amended code will soon be published.
Similarly, the DG said a new time table for the Digital Switch Over (DSO) roll out will be announced immediately after the lockdown.
