The Media and War against Corruption in Nigeria Introduction The media and society are like the two sides of a coin mutual and inseparable, each determines the other in a peculiar way. The main functions of the media in society are for surveillance, correlation, transmission of culture information dissemination, management, instruction and mobilisation (Harold Lasswell1948; Wilbur Shcraumm 1964; Elizabeth Noelle Newman 1973; Dennis McQuail 2005.This means that the media should cover and report the
coercion. Nigeria, a country in West Africa, was a hub for natural resources like palm oil, timber, and other
Africa’s fully educated populations are leaving to find better jobs overseas, and the young brains are leaving to get education abroad. This phenomenon could lead to the downfall of several African countries. The African brain drain is the leading cause of problems such as poverty and delayed economic development that most African nations face. According to a report from the Pollution Research Group at Natal University in South Africa, Africa has
Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read” But do we know why poverty exists, what puts the people into these life threatening conditions? Millions of words can be written on this issue but to no avail. Let’s think of who causes it. Is it the public, the government or the poor themselves? Over 3 billion people which is almost half the world, lives on less than $2.50 a day. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less
Nonviolence: The Only Solution to Violence As a little boy, I lived with my parents in a big yellow house that had red couches, a wine shelf, a glass table and a flat screen television in Oluti, Lagos, Nigeria. My parents worked hard to provide anything needed to send me to an expensive private school, Prime Montessori School. Break times made my school a happy place even when my naughtiness received attention from the teacher and principal. My parents disciplined me for every complaint received
school in Nigeria and to bring out terrorist attacks on Nigerian government police and government officials. It started when in 2002, Muhammed Yusuf was founded Islamic Secretariat Movement in northeastern Nigeria in order to opposed Western influence especially Western education. Since 2009, the Islamic Secretariat Movement has carried out assassinations and large-scale acts of violence in Nigeria. The very beginning of its formation, the group has the intention that aims to uproot the corruption and
Analyze the effects of the oil economy on Nigerian refugees Carmen Miller Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, and when oil was discovered in the Niger Delta in 1958, Shell oil began production (Crude Politics). With an average output of 2.5 million barrels per day (Donatus), Nigeria has become the highest producer of crude oil in Africa and the third-highest in the world (World Factbook). Nigeria’s population growing rapidly, and is projected to reach 392 million people by 2050 (Falola),
enough to be considered as “rising”, as many inequalities, corruption, diseases, and social gaps still remain predominant. Economically, Africa is in a much better economic position today than it was at the turn of the
Information and communications technology can indeed be applied to diverse range of human experience; the question is how this is possible? Nigeria as a state is full of so many issues that the application of information technology can make a difference. ICTs can be used as tools for national development. This research enlightens and highlights on how ICTs can be used as tools for the development of the education sector, the economy, the health care service sector, industries and so on. ICTs innovations
is at stake every second. The Federal Republic of Nigeria is one of Africa’s more prosperous countries but it faces problems with terror every day. Extremists have been a growing threat in West Africa due to the fact that they are known to be the highest contributor to humanitarian crises. The extremist group Boko Haram, who also refer to themselves as the West African Province, have been involved in the massacres of many innocent lives in Nigeria since 2002. They aim to create a nation state of Islam