BBC NEWS | TV station shut down in Nigeria

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7620729.stm

A Nigerian TV station has been shut down by the security services after it reported the president would step down due to his poor health.

Managers at Channels TV were arrested on Tuesday night, following the broadcast of a report attributed to the national news agency.

The New Agency of Nigeria (Nan) denied the report had come from them and said a false e-mail address had been used.

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Created by damianrafferty on 17 September 2008

damianrafferty's thoughts:

Closing down a TV channel and imprisoning its staff because they allegedly fell for a hoax email, not exactly the way to handle things, is it?

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