Nigeria, April 27 -- The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it only warned Channels TV and did not suspend the station's operations over the broadcast of an interview with a leader of an outlawed group, IPOB.

The NBC has faced criticism since Monday when news of its action against Channels TV was made public. Many Nigerians viewed the alleged suspension of Channels TV by the NBC as an attack on media freedom and independence.

PREMIUM TIMES has now obtained a copy of the letter by the NBC to the television station.

In the letter addressed to Channels TV Managing Director on Monday, the NBC accused the station of promoting content liable to incite hatred and sectionalism by tolerating the IPOB spokesman's "derogatory, false and ...