NewsPress * MediaPresident Buhari Appoints New Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Balarabe Shehu Ilelah as the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, made the announcement in a statement on Friday.

The appointment of Ilelah, a veteran broadcaster, is for a tenure of five years in the first instance.

Ilelah takes over from the Acting DG, Armstrong Idachaba, whose stint saw the sanction of media houses at different times.

Under Idachaba, the NBC slammed a fine of N5million on Nigeria Info 99.3 FM Lagos in August 2020.

As Ilelah prepares to assume office, his handling of the broadcast industry, government’s perceived hostility on social media, plans to regulate the use, Twitter ban, among others, will be under observation by many Nigerians.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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