NBC seeks approval to refile appeal against ruling barring it from fining broadcasters
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja for permission to file a fresh appeal against a Federal High Court judgement that barred it from imposing monetary fines on broadcast stations.
Barely two months later, on 17 June, another panel of the appellate court struck out the NBC’s appeal against Mrs Ofili-Ajumogobia’s judgement after finding that the notice of appeal was fundamentally defective because it identified the appellant as the “Nigerian Broadcasting Commission” instead of its statutory name, the “National Broadcasting Commission.
The application follows the Court of Appeal’s 17 June decision striking out the commission’s earlier appeal after it found the notice of appeal to be fundamentally defective because the regulator was wrongly identified as the “Nigerian Broadcasting Commission” instead of its statutory name, the “National Broadcasting Commission.
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