Broadcasting stations to pay N5m fine for hate speech | The Nation News

Any broadcasting station that broadcasts news considered to convey hate speech will pay N5,000,00 and not N500,000 fine, Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed, said on Tuesday.

Other provisions of the new code include amendments in the coverage of emergencies, local content, political broadcasting, advertising and anti-competitive behavior. Justifying the amended law on registration of web broadcasting grants, the minister explained that it enabled the country to regulate negative foreign broadcasts that can harm the nation. Such harms, he stressed, could be “in the area of security, protection of minors, protection of the human dignity, economic fraud, privacy, among others”.

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