The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has said that it is doing everything to ensure that Nigerian children do not consume harmful messages through the broadcast media.

The NBC said this in Umuahia on Monday during the grand finale of the 2024 school debate competition organized by Vision Africa with the theme “Is social media impactful to teenagers?”

NBC, which spoke through the Coordinating Director of Broadcast Monitoring, Susan Obi, said that the broadcast regulator is always sustaining its role in preventing destructive materials from going out from broadcast outfits into the broadcast environment.

Obi, who described Nigerian children as the future leaders, said that every content they consume must be that which is good and would help them make informed choices about life, and not that which would mislead them.

“At NBC, we are ensuring that consumers of broadcast messages consume what is good for them, so we align with what is happening here.

“We are interested in our children and mindful of the kind of messages that you consume. We are conscious that the messages that are out in the airwaves are what is safe,” she said.

Also speaking, the wife of the Abia State Governor, Mrs. Priscilla Chidinma Otti, who was represented by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment, Professor Ijeoma Iheukwumere, said that the State Government is interested in the development of education and the protection of children.

Earlier in his address, the President of Vision Africa and Methodist Bishop, Sunday Ndukwo Onuoha, said that the school debate competition was designed to raise a new generation of leaders who would take over in all spheres of life.

Methodist Girls High School, Umueze, Umuahia, defeated Valley View, Ohafia, in the grand finale.