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Description:: This articles examines viewer preference for two TV stations in Nigeria, ABS/TV and N.T.A., with the aim of determining the more preferred of the two stations, determining their programmes ratings, determining the viewers assessment of the TV stations on selected attributes and finding out the influence of their presenters on programmes preference. The study used the field survey and library review methods and tested four hypothesis. A sample of 500 viewers were studied; but the response rate was 63.6%. The study revealed that ABS-TV was the more preferred station. It was evaluated positively by the viewers on clarity
Date Issued:: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Africa Media Review

Description:: This paper discusses some of the constraints on efforts to formulate comprehensive mass media policies in Nigeria. It reviews the constitutional and political environment of the mass media and journalistic practice in Nigeria and identifies legal, economic, historical, linguistic and cultural factors which impede the development of the mass media and constrain their performance. It argues that antagonisms between politicians and journalists have led to government nationalization and control of the mass media thus marginalizing the role of journalists as watchdogs on government conduct of public affairs. It calls for a redefinition of the role of the media in Nigeria more in accord with its history, culture and aspirations and away from the present western mode which only fans conflicts between the government and the mass media. That is the direction an appropriate mass media policy for Nigeria should take.
Date Issued:: 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Africa Media Review

Description:: This article critically examines the depth of the reforms and elections that underpinned Nigeria's recently concluded political transition. It also analyses the important challenges confronting democratic consolidation in the face of the "imperfect" nature of the political transition, revolutionary pressures from below and factional struggles within the hegemonic elite -- all of which have direct implications for the social contract and the national question. At the end it is argued that this transition is Nigeria's last chance -- and except it transfers real power to the Nigerian people, the current struggles could signpost grave portends for the Nigerian Project.
Date Issued:: 2000-12-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: African Journal of Political Science