Amnesty International, a renowned international non-governmental organization headquartered in the United Kingdom, has strongly criticized the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for its recent final warning issued to Arise Television station, alleging a violation of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code. The organization has urged Nigerian authorities to cease their “relentless quest to silence media organizations.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In a statement shared on its official platform on Saturday, October 7, Amnesty International expressed its deep concern over the NBC’s actions. The organization argued that censoring the media for merely carrying out their journalistic duties sends a troubling message, suggesting that Nigerian authorities are reluctant to be held accountable.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The statement from Amnesty International reads, “Amnesty International condemns the ‘final warning’ issued to @ARISEtv by the FG through National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Targeting Arise TV simply for doing their work sends the wrong message that Nigerian authorities are not prepared to be held accountable.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Furthermore, Amnesty International called upon Nigerian authorities to abandon their efforts to stifle media organizations, emphasizing the vital role they play in maintaining an independent and diverse media landscape in the country, thus ensuring people’s right to information.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The organization stressed that using regulations as a means to silence independent journalism is wholly unacceptable. It firmly advocates for media freedom in Nigeria, asserting that the media should have the liberty to exercise their right to freedom of expression, as guaranteed by international law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amnesty International, a renowned international non-governmental organization headquartered in the United Kingdom, has strongly criticized the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for its recent final warning issued to Arise Television station, alleging a violation of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code. The organization has urged Nigerian authorities to cease their “relentless quest to silence media organizations.” In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}