Nigerian Press and Performance Challenges

  • Muhammad Bashir Ali
Keywords: Nigeria and Performance, Nigerian press, Media

Abstract

From its inception to date, the Nigerian press combines both divisive and progressive characteristics and features. It is always part of struggles against colonialism, military dictatorships and bad governance in Nigeria. In the same thrust, it is almost always shrouded by controversial issues of sectionalism, religious sentiments, and political partisanships. This paper adopted secondary analysis of data strand in the course of its analysis. It was discovered that throughout the different phases of its developments the Nigerian press encountered not only the problems of partisanship in religious, sectional, political and sectional issues, but also other additional challenges which include the introduction of internet, social media, competing against several hundreds of online journalism materials, lack of adequate facilities and skills for journalists to effectively participate in online reporting and check-mating offensive materials, the problem of citizen reporting online which confuses users in differentiating between news, information, features, and others placed by trained journalists as different from those placed by untrained ones among others. This paper contributes to the discussions and debates on both old and new challenges confronting the Nigerian press with a view to enhancing understanding the subject.

Published
2020-02-20
How to Cite
Ali, M. B. (2020). Nigerian Press and Performance Challenges. University of Nigeria Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication Studies , 21(2). Retrieved from https://journal.ijcunn.com/index.php/IJC/article/view/46
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