The National Broadcasting Commission had issue out directives to media outlets accross the country to halt medial publication of news relating to insecurity across the length and breath of Nigeria.
The Director, Broadcast Monitoring of the commission, Francisca Aiyetan, issued the warming on behalf of the new Director-General of the commission, Balarabe Ilelah today in a statement titled, "News Papers Reviews and Current Affairs Programmes.
The statement reads in part thus,"Headlines of most Newspapers on daily basis are replete with security topics. While bringing information on security to the doorstep of Nigerians is a necessity. There is ameed for caution as too many details may have an adverse implication on the efforts of our security officials who are duty-bound to deal with insurgency."
The commission, therefore, enjoins broadcasters to collaborate with government in dealing with challenges.
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