THE IMPACT OF NIGERIAN PRESS ON SHAPING THE COUNTRY’S POLITICAL STRUCTURE (PERIOD OF STUDY 1999 TO 2004


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ABSTRACT
This paper examines the role or the impact of Nigerian Press on shaping the country’s political structure period of study 1999-2004.
A general study of Nigeria is because it happens to be the period when we witness a transition to civilian rule. Many library materials constituted the sample source and literature review. Dates were also collected through extensive reading of information material on the government administrative policy.
There findings showed that by the period of 1999, government activities in respect to the policy of administration supposed to have passed the stages of mobilization to that of execution, and that newspaper will not only covered those activities by use of newstones but also comment on the policy formulation and application through the use of feature articles and editorials. The newspaper also identifies problems that should be solved for the government programmes to succeed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER PAGE I
TITLE PAGE II
CERTIFICATION III
DEDICATION IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT V
ABSTRACT VI
TABLE OF CONTENTS VII
LIST OF TABLES

CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 4
1.2 STATEMENT OF RESEARCH PROBLEMS 5
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 7
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 7
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 8
1.6 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS 8
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 9
1.8 ASSUMPTIONS 10

CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW 11
2.0 POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT11
2.1 PRESS VOICE OF THE VOICELESS 12
2.2 BANNING NEWSPAPERS 14
2.3 HOW FREE IS THE NIGERIA PRESS 15
2.4 ROLE OF THE PRESS IN THE SOCIETY 16
2.5 CHALLENGING OF PRESS MAN 20
2.6 PRESS VIEW ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT 
OF NIGERIA 22
2.7 PRESS AND POWER IN NIGERIA POLITICS 28
2.8 THE PERIOD OF MUTALA/OBASANJO 
MILITARY REGIME 29
2.9 SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW 34

CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 36
3.0 RESEARCH DESIGN 36
3.1 RESEARCH SAMPLE AND PROCEDURE 36
3.2 MEASURING INSTRUMENTS 37
3.3 DATA COLLECTION 37
3.4 DATA ANALYSIS 38
3.5 EXPECTED RESULT 38

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 DATA PRESENTATION AND RESULTS 39
4.1 SUMMARY OF RESULT 44
4.2 DISCUSSION 46

CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 SUMMARY 48
5.1 RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER STUDY 49
REFERENCE 51
APPENDIX 53

  • Department: Mass Communication
  • Project ID: MAS0910
  • Access Fee: ₦5,000
  • Pages: 65 Pages
  • Reference: YES
  • Format: Microsoft Word
  • Views: 1,229
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