MEDIA REPORTAGE OF BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA

Adewale K. Kupoluyi () and Taiye A. Awotunde ()
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Adewale K. Kupoluyi: Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Postal: Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria,, https://fssunilorinedu.org/ijbss/index.php
Taiye A. Awotunde: Department of Political Science, Postal: University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria,, https://fssunilorinedu.org/ijbss/index.php

Ilorin Journal of Business and Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 21, issue 1, 155-166

Abstract: Boko Haram, a religious sect known in English as 'People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad', is reported to have killed many people and destroyed monumental property, mainly in the North-East of Nigeria, since 2009. This trend poses serious problems to good governance, national security and development. The study seeks to examine the media reportage of insurgency in Nigerian with reference to Boko Haram. The print media was selected because of its advantage of permanency, wide coverage and ease of doing content analysis, over other types of media. The Mediatisation Theory and Framing Theory served as the theoretical framework for the study. The study reveals that the role of the media in fostering development by educating and informing, through agenda-setting, mediatisation and framing, has not really been effective in the reportage of insurgency in the country. This has brought about misconception and misgivings on the minds of the people. To redress the confusion, therefore, the study recommends the need for the media to be alive to its social and constitutional responsibilities in communicating rightly for enduring peace, good governance and national development in Nigeria.

Keywords: Boko Haram Insurgency; Good Governance; Media; National Development; Security. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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