Okechukwu Chukwuma

Limits of Language in Nigeria: Hatred based on Igbo Language, attempts to delve deeply into different socio-linguistic issues faced by the Igbo language within Nigerian context. In doing so, the study has used a mixed-methods approach wherein demographic data, public attitudes and socioeconomic factors that have brought about the status quote of th...

Disability issues are swiftly becoming topics of hot debate in Third World countries, including Nigeria. These debates largely centre on human rights and the unfair stereotype of persons with disabilities. In Nigeria, as in most countries where disability rights remain a problem, one of the greatest disservices to the disabled community is the lack...

This article explores the cardinal role of the media in salvaging the Nigerian identity through cultural promotion in Nigeria. Employing the historical-analytic and direct observation methods, we used Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory (SLT) as a theoretical lodestar to apprehend the issue of cultural promotion through the media. It was posite...

The fact that the workability of any political process is largely dependent on the active participation of the masses remains undisputable. Also, the active participation of the masses in any political process is largely dependent on the level of awareness and effective mobilization. Research evidence and critical observations have all pointed to t...

This chapter investigates the delicately woven relationship between media portrayals of prison life and public perception of the same, particularly focusing on the influence of the American television series ‘Prison Break’ on Nigerian audiences. The study investigates how exposure to the series shapes the Nigerian youth’s understanding of incarcera...

There is no doubt about the fact that the most fundamental avenue to sustain a language and save it from extinction is by using it as a language of communication. This implies that one needs to be speaking such language in his/her daily interactions with fellow speakers. The refusal to speak a given language jeopardizes or threatens the continuous...

This paper was an exploration of religious communication and practices among adherents in the era of digital platforms. The paper precisely looked at how the emergence of digital platforms is redefining the way religious information is communicated and how religion is practiced among adherents. The paper argued that digital platforms are no doubt r...

The emergence of social media has continued to redefine the direction of things in the society which religion is no doubt inclusive. It is on this basis that this paper explored communication for the advancement of religious knowledge via the various social media platforms. The paper argued that the social media platforms have continued to influenc...

This was a discursive analysis of social media usage for political communication in Nigeria. It was argued that four key stakeholders in the electoral process (the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), politicians/political parties, the electorate, and Civil Society Organizations) made extensive use of social media during the 2011 and t...

It is true that there is beneficial aspect of social media meanwhile the negative effect of social media on students and education in general appears to supersede the positive. If social media can waste time, reduce library patronage, distort reading habit, affect writing and spoken English, then how does it help the youth, how does it aid personal...

This study was aimed at ascertaining the influence of FRCN’s Igbo language programmes on the promotion of Igbo language in South-East Nigeria. The survey research method was used to carry out the study, while the questionnaire was utilized as a data collection instrument. The residents of South-East Nigeria constituted the population of the study f...

This paper is a discourse on the mass media with reference to the observance of the timeliness criterion in the reportage of news. It was argued that for news (especially hard news) to make the desired impact, timeliness is a core demand. It is a yardstick amongst others, which is always employed to assess the worthiness of an event. It also conten...

At the Regional Radio communication Conference of ITU which took place in June 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland, participants unanimously endorsed a motion for broadcast stations to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting with deadlines of June 17, 2015, and June 17, 2020, for countries using frequency bands such as VHF. In a bid to fully comply b...

Section 22 of Nigeria’s 1999 constitution indicates that the watchdog role is a constitutional duty of the press to ensure that government is responsible and accountable to the people. However, one major approach deployed by the press to enforce this crucial watchdog role is through investigative journalism. Investigative journalism provides a very...

Section 22 of Nigeria’s 1999 constitution indicates that the watchdog role is a constitutional duty of the press to ensure that government is responsible and accountable to the people. However, one major approach deployed by the press to enforce this crucial watchdog role is through investigative journalism. Investigative journalism provides a very...

This study investigated the use of social media in creating and maintaining relationships among residents of South-East Nigeria. Four objectives were advanced from where four research questions were formulated. Survey research method was used to conduct the study while questionnaire was employed as measuring instrument. Residents of the five states...

The study was aimed at ascertaining the level at which broadcast journalists in South-East Nigeria deploy the social media in news gathering and transmission. The survey research method was used while the questionnaire served as the measuring instrument. The entire 867 broadcast journalists in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria constituted...

The world is now more than ever endangered by the prevalence of medical errors262. Available data suggest that over 2.7 million people die annually around the globe of causes traceable to medical errors. The case appears to be worse in developing countries like Nigeria where confirmed reports revealed that 7 out of every 10 deaths in medical facili...

As the 2015 ITU deadline given to all broadcast media stations in the world to move from analogue to digital broadcasting draws closer, observers are of the view that many countries including Nigeria will not meet the deadline. With less than two years to the deadline, one is therefore tempted to find out whether broadcast stations in Nigeria are i...

As at the last count, the Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria has claimed the lives of over 8, 345 people. This does not diminish the many properties and businesses that have been destroyed since they began their onslaught on the Nigeria state in 2002. While this is regrettable, considering the fact that the sect has affiliations with terrorist groups...

Social media have revolutionized the way humans now communicate. Communication has moved from the traditional one way approach to what is today called the two way pattern in which there is instant interaction/feedback between source/s and recipient/s. This innovation is both monumental and wonderful in the world of contemporary human communication....

Amongst the many functions of the media, the surveillance function is no doubt, a very fundamental role. This function places a demand on the media to scan the environment and report dangers, especially impending dangers, which largely contribute to the insecurity of lives and property. In line with the sensitive nature of this function and the cur...

Community broadcasting is, no doubt, a sine qua nonfor effective rural development in every typical rural set up. This stems from the fact that the mass media are a major contributor to every positive development in every society. The sorry state of rural communities in Africa has continually begged for an urgent and transforming attention. This is...

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970 ended with the then military government of Gen. Gowon maintaining the “No Victor, No Vanquished” posture. This was despite the fact that the defunct Biafra, as it were, clearly lost out with millions of casualties, mostly women and children. This posture, with all its criticisms from those who insisted that Biafr...

The transmission of HIV from an infected mother to her child during pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding is called Mother-to-Child Transmission (MCT). This is one avenue that has fundamentally aided the infection of children with the dreaded HIV disease. This menace of mother-to-child transmission has been very devastating. Many children have been...

One fundamental principle of media business is the fact that media people must always put public interest first in all their dealings. This they are expected to do irrespective of their geographic or ownership leanings. While one recognises the fact that these factors remain contentious in the media circle and sometimes difficult to do away with in...

For over a century now, the attention of communication scholars has shifted from strategic communication to strategic silence with an open invitation for experts to investigate the potency of the latter in the line of communication. As an honour to this invitation, this study investigates the use of strategic silence in interpersonal communication...

Nomads constitute about 6 percent of the African population and are found in at least 20 different countries across the continent (Muhammed and Abbo, 2010:3). In Nigeria, the nomads who constitute about 7.6 percent (9.8 million) of the country’s population were, before the establishment of the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) in 198...

Postcolonial Nigeria has no doubt witnessed and is still witnessing several forms of insurgencies in both the Northern and the Southern divides of the country, most of which have been very bloody and catastrophic. One of such devastating insurgencies that is currently ravaging peaceful and harmonious living in the country is the Boko Haram terroris...

In crisis situations, it is the duty of the mass media to give adequate reports devoid of bias. The media in this regard are expected to shun subjectivity which is capable of escalating the crisis. Nigeria has witnessed a lot of crisis which have no doubt, attracted both government and private media coverage. This paper therefore, argues that the p...