This study is aimed at finding out the influence of Newspaper political Reports on the voting Behaviour of Electorates. It aimed at determining through opinion survey, the degree at which the voting behaviour of electorates is effected by their exposure to newspaper political report, using Enugu state local Government Areas (North and South) as a case study. An empirical survey of five (5) of the twenty (20) wards in Enugu local Govern […]
INTRODUCTION 1.1 BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE AS A NATION STATE To highlight some significant event and developments in response to a review of Nigeria experience as a nation state, it is intellectual to present a brief survey of the part to understand the distinct phases through which the nation passed to arrive at its present political state and economic condition vis-à-vis revenue allocation. Some of these historical per […]
Introduction 1.1 Background of the study Democratic governance with its ideal of elective representation, freedom of choice of leaders, rule of law, freedom of expression, accountability etc has become the acceptable system of government all over the world. It is a form of government in which the supreme power of a political community rest on popular sovereignty. According to oyovbaire (1987) democracy as a system of government seeks […]
1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The development of Nigerian politics is interwoven with that of the press. The early press, notably Townsend’s Iwe Irolin fun awon oti Egba Yoruba, the Nigerian first newspaper was used as a political progranda tool to fight the colonial administration in Lagos during the struggle for Independence. Idowu (2001:55) reports that the newspaper was so effective that the Church Missionary Society […]
No matter how plural a society may be, the radio should be the engineering force and vehicle for conveying political message to the women in the democratization process in which man is the pivot, it is with this background that the objectives of this study re-channeled towards metropolis for their participation in politics. The work examined factors such as medium, interpersonal communication, exposure objectivity and sycophancy to cle […]
One of the basic Machineries of any Representative democratic system is the Electoral Process. The Experience of the western representative democracy in Nigeria can be traced from the Clifford and Mcpherson Constitutions for 1922 and 1951 respectively. This was elaborated at independence in the first and second republic and subsequent periods. Very Ugly Experiences have characterized the activities with the Electoral Process that const […]
The aim of this project is to analyse The Role of Radio in mobilizing Women for politics in Nigeria period of Study from 19961 – 2004. The system of Communication through Radio plays a major role in mobilization of woman for politics on Nigeria, improving lot of Nigeria women is a prime target. In Nigeria with the regard to women politics and information awareness, radio plays major parts then any other means of communication. Meanwhil […]