The commission’s warning was contained in a letter by its Director General, Dr Balarabe Shehu Ilelah and addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, Arise Global Media Limited, on Friday, October 6, 2023.
In the letter titled, ‘Preponderance of derogatory and incendiary remarks: final warning,’ NBC flagged the station’s flagship programme, The Morning Show of October 5, 2023, as containing unguarded incendiary remarks by a guest, Dele Farotimi.
Farotimi, a lawyer, seasoned political activist, and Labour Party sympathiser, became a trending topic on social media on Thursday following his unsavory remarks against the Nigerian judiciary and the person of President Bola Tinubu.
