Nigeria: In Nigeria, What is News?

27 April 2014
analysis

To constantly follow events in the media should ordinarily place a person in a position to promptly appreciate new events and happenings around him and elsewhere. In Nigeria however, an ardent newspaper reader or radio listener or television viewer cannot be too sure to read, hear or see new events.

It is not that media practitioners in Nigeria are not proactive enough to meet their mandate of public enlightenment. The problem has to do with the way things happen in circles in the country. Past events recur as if they are happening for the first time making it appear that Nigerians learn very little from history.

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