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.
The application was disclosed in a statement on Monday by Idowu Adewale, the communications officer of Media Rights Agenda (MRA).
According to the statement, the commission filed a motion asking the appellate court to extend the time within which it can challenge the lower court’s judgement after its earlier appeal was struck out for being incompetent.
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.”
Mr Idowu explained that the NBC through its lawyer, Dapo Akinosun, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), is seeking an extension of time to appeal the 10 January 2024 judgement delivered by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia of the Federal High Court in Lagos.
