SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it has blocked the transmission signals of Radio Biafra, which has been broadcasting illegally from an unknown location.
But the controversial station in a tweet said, “Radio Biafra is live in BiafraLand. They cannot even ban our local station, do they even know we also transmit via satellite and online as well…?”
The radio station has been campaigning for the actualization of the stillborn republic of Biafra, which died at the end of the civil war where hundreds of thousands died in the eastern part of Nigeria.
Dr. Yemi Folasade-Esan, the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Information, stated this while speaking with State House correspondents after he had briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the activities of the ministry.
Folasade-Esan said that Buhari was adequately briefed on the activities of the illegal radio station and the successful blocking of its transmission signals.
“We also gave a report on Radio Biafra. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has successfully jammed that. The NBC is also working with security operatives to get those that are behind that radio because it is an illegal radio. It is not licensed by anybody to be on Nigeria’s airwaves, the official said.
