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FG Jams Radio Biafra Signal In Lagos, Ask DSS, Police To Arrest Operators

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The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Monday announced that it has jammed the signals of Radio Biafra in Lagos State.

The NBC in a statement also asked the Department of State Security (DSS) and the Nigeria Police Force to arrest operators of the pirate radio claiming to be ‘Radio Biafra’.

NBC said it intercepted the signals, which were transmitted to most part of the nation’s commercial hub.

The statement partly read, “The National Broadcasting Commission has jammed the signals of a Pirate Radio claiming to be ‘Radio Biafra’ in most parts of Lagos. The illegal radio which broadcast incendiary messages is notorious for spewing fake, inflammatory and incendiary contents.

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“The Department of State Security and the Nigerian Police have been requested to bring the culprits behind this illegality to book.”

The Biafra movement is associated with secessionist groups including Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) led by Nnamdi Kanu.

Recall that the Federal Government had designated IPOB as a terrorist organisation in September 2017.

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