Nigeria: Channels TV Closure - Activists Picket NBC Today

19 September 2008

Lagos — Human right activists and civil society organizations would today picket the premises of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for revoking the operational licence of Lagos-based Channels Television.

The exercise billed for the Commissions's office at the Tafawa Balew Square (TBS) by 11: am is jointly organised by the United Action for Democracy (UAD) and the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM). This is coming just as Abike Dabiri, member of the Federal House of Representatives called on the federal government to exercise restraint, saying the revocation did not follow rule of law.

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