The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the shutdown of the broadcast stations whose licenses were revoked on Friday over unpaid dues.
The commission made it known in a statement released on Saturday that the stations now have up to Tuesday August 23 to pay their debts.
According to Balarabe Shehu Ilehah, the director-general of the commission, the decision was motivated by the intervention of concerned groups and visible efforts by some of the defaulting stations to clear their debts.
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The statement went as follows:
“Following the intervention of concerned groups and visible efforts by some of the defaulting licensees to offset their debts, the National Broadcasting Commission hereby serves this notice of an extension of deadline to shutdown to 6:00pm on Tuesday August 23, 2022”
“All affected broadcast stations who fail to defray their debts on or before August 23, 2022 are directed to shutdown by 12 am on August 24, 2022”.
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