The Socio-Economic Rights and Responsibilities Project was in breach of a warning issued to Arise News Channel by the National Broadcasting Corporation over the weekend for alleged violations of the Nigerian Broadcasting Act.
NBC Director Balarabe Lela issued a final warning to Arise, saying the committee had been observing with concern the number of inflammatory statements made by guests featured on Arise News. One of the guests mentioned in the letter is Labor Party spokesperson Kenneth Okonkwo, who appeared on NewsDay on 6 October.
NBC said in the letter that Mr. Okonkwo made derogatory remarks in Ayer. In response, Okonkwo said in a lengthy post on Instagram that the letter was a complete violation of fundamental human rights guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution and that the importation of the letter was meant to blackmail him and Arise News. said that it belonged to SERAP calls on the NBC to withdraw the above final warning to Arise, or the commission will be taken to court.
Meanwhile, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has claimed that the Tinubu administration has already completed an elaborate and sinister plot to taunt the media ahead of the release of records containing the alleged criminal investigation of the President by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. of investigation.
Atiku said in a statement by his special assistant on public affairs, Puran Shaibu, that the Tinubu administration is frustrated by the Chicago State University scandal and is planning a major offensive in the coming days. Atiku explained that the threat of sanctions against Arise News by the National Broadcasting Commission is just the tip of the iceberg, adding that Tinubu’s media platforms such as TVC constantly attack him and refuse to even air dissenting opinions. He added that NBC was closely monitoring the situation.
He also said that NBC tried to show some impartiality in February, when Festus Keyamo, a reporter from the APC Presidential Election Council Joint Media Directorate, said that Obasanjo and Atiku were running a criminal enterprise. It also said it had fined TVC for unprofessional broadcasting, such as airing press conferences. And while there was a fraud empire in Abuja, NBC has reportedly become more partisan than ever since Tinubu became president on May 29.
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development Festus Keyamo has responded to a 2019 tweet that is currently going viral. In his defense of Mr. Buhari’s WAEC certificate, the Minister said that forgery occurs when the alleged author of the document denies the creation of the document or denies its authenticity. , told Company X on Sunday that it would not do so until a vendor came along with a replacement certificate. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied the documents and there is no case against him.
Afrobeats superstar Davido has been embroiled in controversy after former Nigeria Football Federation president Amaju Pinnik accused him of reneging on his contract to perform at a festival held in Delta State on October 6. The musician told fans on his Instagram Story on Sunday that he had notified event organizers in advance that he would not be able to attend the concert, but that the organizers insisted that they use his name to promote the show. . In a demand letter dated September 29, organizers said Davido signed the contract on March 30 and was paid a total of $94,500 to headline the show.
Organizers also said they paid an additional $18,000 for a private jet to transport the superstar and his crew to the event. Later, a video of Davido promoting the concert went viral on social media.
Arise News pays tribute to legal icon and businessman Christopher Oladipo Ogunbanjo, who passed away on Saturday, October 7th at the age of 99, just two months before his 100th birthday. Masu. Ogunbanjo was an early proponent of domestic accounts in Nigeria which later came into existence with his proclamation of the Foreign Exchange Ordinance No. 18 of 1985.
In the late 1960s, he was among a group of businessmen who supported local capital participation in foreign companies operating in Nigeria. As a Nigerian business leader, he has been an articulate spokesperson for the organized private sector and has demonstrated common sense over the years in his various comments on the direction of the Nigerian economy.
Ogunbanjo was born on December 14, 1923 in Ogun State. He attended St. Philip’s Primary School, Ife, before proceeding to Oduduwa College, Ife, for his secondary education in 1936.
He then obtained a law degree from the University of London in 1949 and was called to the bar in 1950. Ogunbanjo began his law practice in 1950 as a partner in the law firm then known as Samuel Chris & Michael, along with Michael Odesanya and Radke. Akintola, former Prime Minister of Western Nigeria.