CITAD condemns NBC directive on broadcasters

The Centre for Information Technology and Development has condemned a caller directive issued by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to broadcasters crossed Nigeria, informing that it could shrink property state and civic abstraction successful the country.

In a connection connected Sunday signed by Y. Z. Ya’u, Executive Director of CITAD, the organisation described the directive arsenic a unsafe escalation successful what it called the ongoing erosion of state of look and media independence.

According to the organisation, though the directive is presented arsenic a regulatory move, it raises superior concerns astir its wider interaction connected antiauthoritarian accountability and integer rights.

“This directive represents a unsafe escalation successful the ongoing erosion of property state and civic abstraction successful the country,” the connection said.

CITAD noted that astatine a clip erstwhile Nigeria is facing analyzable socio-political challenges, the media remains 1 of the fewer platforms wherever citizens tin question those successful powerfulness and request accountability.

The organisation expressed interest that the directive contains vague and unclear standards that could easy b...