Programmes showing miracles have disappeared from screens in compliance with an edict from the Nigeria's National Broadcasting Commission, which took effect from the beginning of May. The NBC, the body which regulates broadcasting, says some of the miracles shown on television are false and stations can broadcast miracles only when they are verifiable. But members of the Christ Embassy, one of the largest churches which used to show healing services, have now gone to court to challenge the NBC. Avid viewer Akangbe Olusola said television schedules were less interesting as a result of the ban. But some Nigerians like Ayodele Ojo say they are glad that television viewers are no longer inundated with church serivces showing miracles. "The truth of the matter was that the airwaves became polluted with miracle programmes," he said.
