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
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
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
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),
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
country where corruption of leaders is not a pandemic. Africa as a continent is the richest in raw material and recourses yet the majority of africans live in absolute poverty (less than $1.25 a day). One may ask why a continent so rich is so poor. Corruption is a major factor contributing to poverty as a whole. It is noted that in Africa the large informal sector is almost completely untouched. Most Africans, when asked why they are faced with debilitating poverty will blame the corruption in the government
They have a political environment of corruption, nepotism and bureaucracy, with politicians who pretty much buy the poor families' votes with food, promises of jobs, and other things. People who live in rural areas do not find it necessary to provide their children with proper education and even if they change their minds the schools they are put in are very poor in providing education, so most of the time all the money and time spent goes to waste. Another cause is the Delay in implementing land reform