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Social Development, Television and Politics in Nigeria.
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Social Development Television and Politics in Nigeria examines pertinent trends and issues concerning Nigeria's development as a nation. The country's sociopolitical perambulation and the role of television in such upheavals as well as their resolution, therefore, constitute the crux of this text.
... However, in the Nigerian media ecosystem, television started out as a medium to ventilate political views, partisan reflections and ethnic interests in the context of regional and national politics. Over the years, it has become a powerful tool of education, entertainment, information dissemination, correlation and socialization (Ibagere, 2009;Okhakhu & Omoera, 2010;Omoera, 2014). As a tool for canvassing self-centred ideas and propaganda by members of the political class and regional governments in the early days of Nigeria as a country, television first sent out its signals on 31 October 1959 (Ibagere, 2009;Ukonu, 2006). ...
... Over the years, it has become a powerful tool of education, entertainment, information dissemination, correlation and socialization (Ibagere, 2009;Okhakhu & Omoera, 2010;Omoera, 2014). As a tool for canvassing self-centred ideas and propaganda by members of the political class and regional governments in the early days of Nigeria as a country, television first sent out its signals on 31 October 1959 (Ibagere, 2009;Ukonu, 2006). The then western region sent out the first television signals in the whole of Nigeria and Africa (Sambe, 2001). ...
... It was christened Western Nigeria Television (WNTV). The proponents of the WNTV claimed that the primary aim of establishing it was to serve as a substitute teacher in improving the regional school systems that were characterised by inexperienced and unqualified teachers or a shortage of them in certain subject areas (Ibagere, 2009). However, this study is more concerned with the challenges of lighting television productions in the context of community stations in Nigeria and how they can be remediated, using the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) community stations at Iruekpen and Uzairue in Edo State, Nigeria as fulcra of discussion and analysis. ...
This article examines the challenges of lighting television productions in broadcast outfits. It selected two Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) community stations in Edo State, Nigeria as bases of analysis and discussion. While metropolitan broadcast outfits in the cities have received considerable attention in scholarship, the same cannot be said of community television operations or activities in Nigeria. Hence, this study is prompted by the need to look closely at the effectiveness of studio lighting in community television productions in Nigeria. It uses the historical-analytic, key informant interview (KII) and direct observation methods to consider the challenges of lighting television productions at Iruekpen and Uzairue community stations of NTA in Edo State, Nigeria. It affirms that television as a medium of mass communication uses sound and visual/images to make its communication of messages to the audience/viewers effective. Apart from providing illumination, lighting in television helps to depict the time, season, atmosphere or environment in which a television production is set. However, in the studio operations of the community television stations under investigation, it was discovered that they lack vital lighting equipment as well as qualified or trained lighting designers or technicians. Based on this, it is suggested that the concerned authorities should provide the requisite television lighting equipment and engage or train their lighting designers who would be able to design and deploy lighting diagrams and techniques in planning high-quality television productions.
... The protected turn of events and political elements that proclaimed the autonomy of Nigeria additionally influenced the telecom circle. Ibagere [20] states, however in a somewhat extraordinary setting, that the way communication works in any general public is constantly controlled by the social and political elements of that specific culture on the grounds that such elements decide the parity of the general public. In supporting the previous, Croteau and Hoynes [21] keep up that, "To all the more likely get media, we have to comprehend the world of politics wherein they work". ...
... Truth be told, numerous analysts and other sharp eyewitnesses of the communicate business in Nigeria (Tony Momoh, Elo Ibagere, Ralph Akinfeleye, Mike Ozekome, Fedelis Amantokwu, Wole Soyinka, 'Biodun Jeyifo, Omo Omoruyi, among others) have charged the Nigerian broadcast communications with inclination for their controllers. As indicated by Eguavoen [23] and Ibagere [20] the significant charges against the broad communications, particularly during the subsequent republic included partisanship, ethnic, and strict hawkishness, coercion of some political applicants, bending of the real world, debasement, and the distortion of the North-South polarity. At any rate, it is deplorable that these are grave charges against an industry which should satisfy its duties and commitments in and to the Nigerian country as cherished in the Nigerian constitution. ...
Over the years the Nigerian political environment has been tagged dirty especially in the fourth republic, as a result of this those who may want to venture into politics with genuine interest might be discouraged because of this trend. Regrettably, the political environment in Nigeria is generally based on tribal or regional identity rather than ideology and this has continued to hinder the progress of the political system in Nigeria. Hence, this paper looked at the various roles broadcast media as a powerful tool of change has played or can play in reshaping the political terrain in Nigeria. The authors showed the relationship that exists between broadcast journalism and politics in Nigeria and how it is indispensable in reshaping the political environment. This study was underpinned on Yale's persuasion theory. The library research method was adopted in this study. It was concluded that the broadcast media have been doing a lot through its programmes to encourage positive political development and this explain why most of these political actors want to identify with them because of the power they wield in causing change. It was also recommended that broadcast journalism should be free from gagging so that they can function effectively in helping to shape the political terrain of Nigeria. Also, in a situation of heated polity characterized by negativity, broadcast journalism should be non partisan, instead its platform Review Article
... This study examined the impact of participatory video (PV) technique, as a form of digital media production, in (re)educating rural dwellers on the new Corona virus , using Iva-Valley Forestry Hill Camp 1 in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria as a swivel of discussion and analysis. Before the advent of digital/social media, the arts and traditional media of radio and television served variously as watchdogs, sentinels, checks, socializers, mobilizers, connectors, entertainers, innovators, manipulators, advertisers, co-creators and educators in human societies (McLuhan 1965;Baran and Davis 1995;Dominick 1996;Adeseye and Ibagere 1999;Omoera 2006;Baran 2006;Omoera and Awosola 2008;Ekwuazi 2008;Awosola and Omoera 2008;Ibagere 2009 information. This has equally affected media productions and the society in other diverse ways as many broadcast outfits have now introduced programmes such as eye-witness report, I-report, citizen journalism, among others, to generate news content for societal consumption. ...
This article examined the impact of participatory video (PV) technique in (re)educating rural dwellers on Corona virus (COVID-19) at Iva-Valley Forestry Hill Camp 1, Southeast Nigeria, with a view to generating data that could be tested or extrapolated elsewhere. It used historical-analytic, key informant interview (KII) and direct observation methods to argue that the COVID-19 pandemic/period has exposed weaknesses immanent in human institutions globally. One of such exposed interstitial gaps is the seeming weak media-link in the rural areas. This situation results from lack of electricity, non-access to reliable locally-generated news by resident community members and the lack of know-how to use mobile phones to generate media contents. Rural dwellers constitute 49.66 percent of the total Nigerian population (National Population Commission [NPC], 2018), yet media focus in Nigeria is mostly urban-driven. Having interacted and co-created a video script in Igbo with the community members through PV to determine the level of (mis)information that has permeated the community and (re)educated the rural dwellers on Corona virus and strategies to prevent its spread, the study canvassed the use of indigenous languages, diversification of media and PV techniques in the dissemination of credible information on COVID-19 in Nigeria, particularly at the grassroots.
... They posit that when the mass media pay attention to particular events or issues, they determine -that is, set agenda for -the major topics of discussion for the individual and society. This compass of proven capacity of the media to determine what should dominate public discourse for reasons of accelerating socio-economic and socio-political development in contemporary society has been rearticulated and reformulated by a number of other media scholars (Banda 2006;Sambe 2009;Ugulah 2009;Ibagere 2009;Ahmad and Ashara 2009;Zhang, Shao and Bowman 2012). This is particularly in relation to refocusing the news agenda of media for national development in different parts of the globe. ...
Employing the historical-analytic methodology, this study focuses on the news agenda in the Nigerian media. It sues that there is the need for news reporting and coverage activities of Nigerian media professionals to be redefined in order for them to be able to effectively contribute to sustainable peace in Nigeria, which is a sine qua non for development. In this context, this study examines the crucial role the media have been playing/ought to be playing/should be playing in the sustenance of peace and the galvanization of sustainable development in Nigeria as a microcosm of Africa. It specifically posits that the culture of peace can ensure the security of lives and properties in the Nigerian society and the society, in turn, stands a greater chance of being economically, socially, politically as well as culturally developed, if the agents of development such as the media and their operators/professionals diligently and dispassionately carry out their responsibilities. Towards this end, the media in Nigeria, both print and broadcast are encouraged to engage in more interpretational and investigative reportage of issues for national development.
This study explores the business of theatre in a Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 environment. Although theatre is not a physical medicine that can treat an infectious disease like Covid-19, it is believed to therapeutically heal the sick and a sick society. More so, theatre, taking the colouration of a change agent, is thought to seek ways to instill societal change in the fight against any disease outbreaks, of which Covid-19 is one. As an agent of social change, the usefulness of theatre in bringing about positive change through its web of persuasion and entertainment cannot be downplayed, especially when there is the need to put aside an existing culture. The ways in which theatre becomes a veritable instrument in curtailing the spread of the Covid-19 disease, as well as a vehicle of entertainment through which members of society are purged of their tragic emotions due to the loss of a loved one or economic hardship, are explained using artistic and literary research methods. The result shows that the theatre has not reneged on performing its role facetiously since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. However, the little it has done has been hypocritical. Nonetheless, with the virus still in existence, there is a greater need to engage the theatre in more sensitisation shows on all media of communication. It is suggested that subsequent creative works should be reflexive of the period.
The impact of radio broadcasting on political participation in Nigeria's South-South Zone is investigated in this study. The importance of radio in political participation has been proven by scholars. Thus, this study builds on the success of radio in this area to ascertain if the same result can be replicated in South-South, Nigeria. The study is anchored on a cross-sectional research design and surveyed 400 respondents. Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) inferential statistics were deployed to test stated hypotheses. In an r{376}0.878;p=0.000 findings, the study reaffirmed the position of scholars on the subject of investigation, indicating that South-South peoples’ behaviour towards political activities is strongly affected by radio broadcast. The study recommends that more effort is needed to ensure the information on the radio is knocked together to positively influence the behaviour of people and their thought on election processes in Nigeria.
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This paper is a historical discourse on the development and the political framework of television broadcasting in Nigeria. It also explores the influence of politics in the emergence of the medium of television, and its imperative in Nigerian politics. It argues that the political gimmick, culture and counterculture characteristic of the Nigerian polity was germane to the establishment of television stations in Nigeria. I utilise the literary and descriptive methodological investigative approaches to investigate the imperative of television in the Nigerian political landscape. Among other findings, the study reveals that the birth of television in Nigeria is rooted in the Nigerian political situation of the First Republic, and that television is imperative in the growth and positive change and development of Nigeria. This research concludes that television and politics in Nigeria intersect. In Nigeria, this medium of communication is a force to reckoned with. Hence, the study recommends that positive reforms and modifications should be made by the National Broadcasting Commission in the operation of television broadcasting. Furthermore, these reforms should be adhered to, so that the aim and objectives of the positive transformation in television broadcasting in Nigeria can be achieved.
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