President Buhari Approves 67 New Broadcast Licenses

 

The federal government has approved 67 new broadcast licenses.

 

The approval was granted by President Muhammadu Buhari and made public by the Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Malam Balarabe Shehu Ilelah on Thursday at a briefing in Abuja.

 

According to him, a Central Monitoring Committee has been set up to provide a rapid response to unethical practices.

 

The NBC boss was said to have appealed to the broadcast stations who were yet to settle their outstanding dues to do so.

 

The new approval brings the total number of approved broadcast licenses by Buhari to 473, which makes the total number of functional broadcast stations in Nigeria rise to 740.