mong youths in Nigeria, lack of employment has made so many youths ideal thereby resulting to crimes in order to make hands meet; Maseko (2009) points to youth peer pressure and rebellion against parental authority; Erickson (2001) observes that drugs also lead the youth to crime; Ojo (2012) lists broken homes and low education attainment as leading to criminal activities. Agbor, Taiwo and Smith (2012) contend that youth in Africa hold great potential as drivers for economic growth through parti... read more

his study is relevant to the management of the media broadcasting stations because it elucidates the role of mass media in reducing unemployment among youths in Nigeria. The findings from this study also address the need for youths to become active audience of the mass media. This study will enhance the existing body of literature by contemplating the areas of the literature that have not yet been examined or considered and incorporating these factors into the current study. The study will th... read more

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IN NIGERIA AND CHALLENGES IN A DIGITAL WORLD

THE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN MUSIC ON LIFESTYLE OF NIGERIA YOUTHS

The media have been undergoing transformations from one phase to another since its inception. As the generations have evolved over the years, people have been able to access the media in many different ways such as television, newspaper and internet due to technological advancement (Heather, 2011). These evolving technologies continue to drive the development of the mass media. The media have been in existence since humanity has been attempting to develop methods of communication and extending t... read more

The Internet has become integrated into our lives as an important, if not very essential tool for information and communication (Fallows, 2005). The large quantity of information available online combined with heavy reliance on the Internet by information seekers raise issues of the credibility or quality of information found online. Credibility in this context refers to the believability or reliability of some information or its source (Hovland, Janis, s& Kelley, 1953). A long history of resear... read more

The key to success in the global technology is to celebrate technology the global technology is to celebrate technology rather than hide it away and to really start developing it where nothing has been done “Masayuki Kukokowa (Japanese). This new or modern information technology I networked or webbed information. This metamorphic transformation points increasingly to practical terms, a global information technology. It is best described as a new millennium. It is comp... read more

Pidgin English came into existence as a result of the coming of the colonial masters to Africa, the highly respected philosophers – said and I quote, “No language is an Island meaning that language only came into existence through a pre – existed one. Pidgin English came into existence through English Language. The coming of the white men to Africa really changed a lot of cultures, languages, norm, ethnics and non – ethics values etc in African. The language pidgin English started d... read more

Nigeria has become a country playing host to the victory of wrong over light, falsehood over the truth and supremacy of personal irresponsibility over fundamental values. It is a country perpetuating a policy that fails to value human life and cherish human beings above material possession, power and pleasures, it is a place where men and women of honor, experience, credibility and self consciousness have been cut their prime for daring to talk. It is a place where crooks are not protected by th... read more

From its inception, in the pre-independence era, the electronic media Industry had been established to cater for the pleasure of entertaining and information the colonial masters and its subjects. It is noteworthy that apart from providing entertainment for colonial masters and their subjects, the existed as vital tools in running the day to day activities of government. In 1977, following the decision of the Federal Military Government to take over all the Television Stations in the country... read more

It remains a fact that rural information provision by information professionals is far from adequate in Nigeria as a whole and Edo State in particular. It has been observed, and correctly too, that the specific area of information provision to rural dwellers has suffered greatly and perennially from near-complete neglect. Thus, the rural populace, in contrast to its urban counterpart, is information starved. The urban-oriented nature of popular media of mass information provision outfits like th... read more

The purpose of this report is therefore to provide the role of social media electioneering credibility, and to help identify some of the current and potential future issues around people’s use of social media. It seeks to understand how people are using social networking sites as well as their attitudes to this form of communication. This study will analyze the role of social media in the 2015 elections, highlighting the ways in which the key election stakeholders utilized socia... read more

Citizen journalism offers professional and non-professional journalists alike opportunities to be active participants in news content creation. With it, members of the public are no longer helpless passive consumers of news. They are now content creators. Citizen journalism has broken the hitherto seemingly endless monopoly of the mainstream media. As such, journalism is today democratic and participatory. According to Educause Learning Initiative (2007), by granting access to just anyone to cov... read more

The significance of this study in the field of mass communication is that it helps to determine the effect of mass communication message and media content on the people. It also helps to play an intermediary role between what is true and our experience, especially those beyond our constant. It also acts as the windows to the walls of information. The significance of this study to the society can be traced to the Lasswellian media function of surveillance of the environmen... read more

Basically, the research work is a critical analysis of how the press covered the election petition tribunals of 2003 from March 2003-May 2004 the Guardian and Observer newspaper are used to comparative analysis of the coverage. Every Monday and Friday edition will be selected. This two paper will for the population in the process, the direction of the news stories features, additional will be evaluated.

Influence of media ownership on editorial policy have made many newspapers to collapse in operations and have also made them to lose their readership grip. In the case of a Announcer Newspapers, as a privately owned Newspaper, if it does not have so many policies that usually affect its readership except that its front and back page stories are centered on Imo state. Often times, it faces the stiff competition of the national and other local newspapers. Again, people from other state would alway... read more

It is a known fact that advertising is money generating sector to any functional media house; It helps to sustain the media houses. Everyday advertisement takes a new lift. It develops with time. Firms and corporation non makes use of their product commercial to sponsor both local and network programmes. This is done in order for their products and services to get recognition which will in turn help to promote business and sales. As a result of this, advertisers embark on different strategies to... read more

Many factors affect voting behavior during elections. Some of these factors are opinion leaders‟ influence, information from the mass media, religion and family. Outside these, there are other considerations like tribalism, ethnicity, corruption, sentiments and the power of incumbency and these factors go a long way in influencing vg pattern during elections. However, there is uncertainty about the influence of the Press in ensuring free and fair electoral activities in elect... read more

The study will enable students to know that, apart from the social benefits of this social networking site, using the sites more than necessary will pose possible dangers to their health. It will be relevant in assisting students in understanding the diversity of social media. It will provide relevance material for students and other researchers undertaking similar research. The study will help researchers with more information on the Influence of social media on student’s academic performance... read more

Democracy in its simplest definition means government of the people, of the people and for the people. It its often referred to as government of popular participation, even though sound schools of thought will argue that democracy in the contemporary society cannot accommodate every member of a society, what can be possible is representative participation. However, in its original form and as practiced in ancient Greek city stated and approximated of New England town meetings and ... read more