BREAKING: NBC orders TV, radio broadcasts to deactivate Twitter accounts

Acting Director-General, National Broadcasting Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba

The National Broadcasting Commission has coordinated all transmission stations in the nation to suspend the support of Twitter with quick impact.

The NBC said the choice followed the suspension of Twitter tasks in Nigeria by the Federal Government over the steady utilization of the stage for exercises that are equipped for sabotaging the corporate presence of Nigeria.

The Commission guided the transmission stations to "de-introduce Twitter handles and cease from utilizing Twitter as a source (UGC) of data gathering for News and projects show particularly telephone in."

The acting Director-General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, gave the mandate in a proclamation on Monday named: "Suspend Twitter handles."

He said, "Subsequent on the suspension of Twitter tasks in Nigeria by the Federal Government over the constant utilization of the stage for exercises that are fit for subverting the corporate presence of Nigeria, the National Broadcasting Commission guides all Broadcasting Stations in Nigeria to suspend the support of Twitter right away.

"In Compliance to the above mandate, Broadcasting Stations are thus encouraged to de-introduce Twitter handles and cease from utilizing Twitter as a source (UGC) of data gathering for News and projects Presentation particularly telephone in.

"Area 2(1) r of the NBC Act depends the Commission with duty to guarantee exacting adherence to the public laws, rules and guidelines. Likewise, Section 3.11.2 of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code gives that "the telecaster will guarantee that law requirement is maintained consistently in a matter portraying that rule of peace and law are socially better than or more alluring than wrongdoing and insurgency.

"Consideration is likewise attracted to segment 5.6.3 of The Code which expects Broadcasters to be aware of materials that may cause irritation, induce to frenzy or crack in the general public in the utilization of a client produced content (UGC).

"Note that it will be traitorous for any telecaster in Nigeria to keep on belittling the suspended Twitter as a wellspring of its data in this way severe consistence is charged."