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Nigeria:
Broadcast Regulator Closes Down Radio Station
CPJ, 4 March 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a decision by Nigeria's media regulatory body to shut down a radio station in connection with a broadcast that questioned the local… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Labaran Maku, the NBC and the Closure of Wazobia FM
Premium Times, 27 February 2013
I waited a week to see if the spirit of crusading journalism for which I knew the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku will triumph over doubt, expecting that he would ask the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
NBC Suspends Radio License
Daily Trust, 24 February 2013
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the broadcasting license of a radio station that repeated conspiracy theories about polio vaccines days before deadly attacks… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Polio Killings - NBC Suspends Wazobia FM Licence
Vanguard, 23 February 2013
No fewer than 16 Journalists with Wazobia FM station in Kano may have lost their job following the withdrawal of the station's broadcast license by the Nigeria Broadcast… Read more »
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Nigeria:
NBC Suspends Operating Licence of Kano Wazobia FM
Premium Times, 22 February 2013
The Nigerian government has suspended the operating license of Wazobia FM, Kano, two weeks after gunmen killed nine polio vaccinators in the city, in an attack blamed on a program… Read more »
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Nigeria:
FG, Kano Want Wazobia FM Sanctioned
This Day, 21 February 2013
The Federal Government yesterday said it had initiated an action to get the owners of Cool FM/Wazobia, that broadcasted an inciting programme criticising the polio programme, which… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Polio Killings - FG, KNSG Wants Wazobia FM Sanctioned
This Day, 20 February 2013
The federal government has initiated action to get the owners of Cool FM/Wazobia that broadcast an inciting programme critical of the polio programme that allegedly instigated the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Murder of 10 Health Workers - Three Wazobia FM Broadcasters Resign
Vanguard, 18 February 2013
Head of station, Wazobia FM station, Kano, Malam Sanusi Kankarofi alongside two staff of the station have resigned their appointments following the controversy generated by the… Read more »
