Nigeria bans reporting 'details' of bandit, insurgent attacks

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The NBC has directed broadcast stations to stop reporting details of attacks by bandits and insurgent. Nigeria Banditry Terrorism Nigerians

“Headlines of most Newspapers on a daily basis are replete with security topics,” NBC director of broadcast monitoring Francisca Aiyetan said in a letter to broadcast stations.

NBC urged broadcast stations to be guided by provisions of sections 5.4.1 and 5.4.3 of the NBC Code which states that “the broadcaster shall not transmit divisive materials that may threaten or compromise the divisibility and indissolubility of Nigeria as a sovereign state. The NBC said some of the topics discussed during daily newspaper reviews have “ethnological coating” which pitches “one section of the country against the other and leaving Nigerians in daily hysteria.”

 

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Francisca Aiyetan did not word her points well. She could have simply cautioned media on their inadvertently amplifying terrorist propaganda, framing reasons for crimes in polarizing ways, and revealing operational details of security forces. Good elaboration below:

pikaso_me screenshot please

Don't forget it's started with Twitter Ban and we kept quiet, they moved to Phase 2

nwekepikin Are you for real? This is sickening.

Thankful for the internet & social media. We shall overcome! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

The dictatorship is now a daily soap unfolding every minutes

This is scary o. How do we know when they get to our backyard if broadcast media stop report. This Buhari-led Government na one chance o.

What is this country turning into for God's sake, so much suppression of rights, and nobody is doing anything about it. It's getting more n more dangerous everyday. God save us. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

They want people to die and nobody hear about it. No be genocide be this?

Whatever their plans are, we will know soon enough and will be ready for them.

Because they were government secret agents

Zoo country

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