A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA) leave to proceed with its Freedom of Information (FOI) suit against the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for refusing to disclose details of payments of license fees by broadcasting stations and platforms operating in Nigeria and the amount owed the Commission by stations as license fees.
In a press release signed by the Communications Officer MRA, Idowu Adewale, the Group noted that Justice Ambrose Lewis Alagoa paved the way for the suit to proceed upon a preliminary motion brought by MRA’s lawyer, Mr Alimi Adamu, asking the Court to grant the organisation leave to mount a legal challenge to NBC’s failure to provide it with the information it requested through a letter dated August 22, 2022.
In the suit in which the NBC and the Attorney-General of the Federation are named as Respondents, MRA is contending that the NBC’s refusal to provide it with the information it requested amounts to a breach of its right of access to information as well as a flagrant violation of the FOI Act.