MASS MEDIA AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA; THE CASE OF SOME ABUJA BASED MEDIA ORGANIZATION

 

Chapter ONE

Introduction

1.1 Background of the examination

The media as an secondary authority of socialization has to an exceptionally massive degree affected the existences of numerous people across various socio-social, financial status and same goes around the world. Its job to the existences of individuals and particularly the exercises of government all together can’t be misrepresented. (Iorza, 2014). Today governance all around the world all in all, the issue of Good Governance has expected the front burner as a fundamental prerequisite for social, monetary and political, yet better governance keeps on being a reason for stress and a major test to most nations including our cherished Nigeria.

The term media, which is the plural of medium, alludes to the correspondence stations which we broadcast things like news, motion pictures, music, training, limited time or significant messages and other information. Which incorporates physical, online papers, magazines, TV, radio, bulletins, phone, the Internet, fax and announcements in the vein, Good governance involves an effective and unsurprising public area consolidating investment and law and order. In the expressions of Eji (2015), Good governance is the running of the undertakings, issues of government in a positive and reformist way that is helpful to the governed, and which conveys the public goods.

Nigeria, government in a delicate to ensure good governance in the nation had in, the 1999 Nigerian constitution in Section 16 (1) a, b, c, and d, and Section 16 (2) grounded a portion of the standards of Good Governance as a potential measures for governance in the country.

Regardless of these sacred arrangements, just as the gigantic monetary assets that are required, and colossal possibilities of the nation, including the social and financial strategies that have been tried by progressive organizations of good governance keeps on being difficult to nail down to our darling nation Nigeria.

In another endeavor to be bless Good Governance in the country, late just organizations, coordinated Good Governance visits, where authorities of the practical service of data close by Journalists initiating in different media houses, inspect the improvement of work on the tasks executed by the distinctive type of offices of the administrative and the state governments. The quintessence of the visit is for the media to access the exhibition of chose public office holders at both the government and state level. The Nigerian constitution in area 22 made arrangement for such an activity where it expressed bury alia; “The press, radio, TV and other broad communications offices will consistently be allowed to keep up the fundamental targets contained in this section and maintain the obligation and responsibility of the government to individuals or the governed.

Today Corruption has become an overall marvel and there is not really any general public in Nigeria without one type of debasement or the other. Degenerate practices didn’t start today; it history is just about as old as mankind. The danger called defilement is a major issue that continues to advance in Nigeria. Debasement is for sure a cankerworm that has eaten profound into the texture of Nigerian culture today. It is a beast that all and diverse obligation regarding the financial hardships confronting the country. This is on the grounds that defilement is viewed as one of the significant block to the financial advancement of the country. It is perhaps, the lone motivation behind why nothing is by all accounts working out. Indeed, is compromising the presence of Nigeria as a substance or as a unified country. Virtually every globe of the human endeavor is influenced by this risk debasement. Furthermore, no calling is saved all things considered. Fascinatingly, progressive governments sought after arrangements against the defilement that is gradually eating up through our adored nation Nigeria and it was the primary motivation behind why the military made attacks into legislative issues. Regardless of different techniques embraced by the governments, defilement is truly expanding in the country.  Nigeria today is a country at crossing point, battling against all types of indecencies. The country’s media specialists had at one time struggled for the political freedom of the country, at an extra time, the media battled for the solidarity of the country during a staggering 30-month common conflict. One of the significant issues that ought to draw in the centralization of the media today is the counter defilement war. There is thus no increase in saying that the way that all hands should be at hand so the counter defilement war could be won. The amount Nigeria would prevail in the current fight relies mostly upon how skilled the media would be. The media calling is required to be above board so journalist could unquestionably uphold the counter debasement crusade. Albeit some media outfits understood this interest and a few endeavors have been directed towards this danger as of late, it is pertinent to realize how the debasement issue is being dealt with in most media associations in Nigeria.

The media should contribute toward causing the general public to accomplish its social objectives and requirements. It should consider itself to be an apparatus of supporting another reason which will enable individuals to take an educated choice that will better their lives and everyone around them. The African cultures need a completely devoted broad communications dependent on improvement of individuals’ financial and political objective and not a similarity of the possibility of either the East or the West. This investigation thusly inspects the difficulties and requirements that keep down the media from promoting good governance in Nigeria(to be precise Abuja media stations).

1.2     Statement of the Problem

The role of the media in promoting good governance cannot be over emphasized. The media acts as check and balances to any government in terms of its reportage of the activities of governance to the people. Ironically, the all-encompassing corruption and unceasing bad leadership in and among the Nigerian(Abuja) press have for long now guided in various forms of professional negotiation such as unprincipled, unethical and subjective journalism. The media, especially their leaders, having been influenced negatively by the macrocosmic institutionalized corruption and bad leadership of the political influential and their like, are becoming deeply immense in these wicked misdeeds, unethical and subjective journalism.

These days, most of the media are not straightforward, honest, competent, disciplined, virtuous, hard-working, upright, just and politically dispassionate. Rather, they are the absolute opposite of what they are supposed to be today as there are other things eating up our efforts. Such unethical media which can easily gets paid to broadcast mere political misinformation and phony information. They extensively indulge in sycophancy rather than facing reality and calling a spade a spade and going straight to the point. Because they are remote-controlled by the government and by those with power meaning wealth or is influential, they are at their whims and caprices, such that they praise-sing unnecessarily a failed present government.

Corruption has made it almost impossible for the media to do anything free so as to achieve certain goals, just for the interest of the poor voiceless masses won’t get free press. Money and power have taken charge of media in Nigeria and the like nations, thus media ethics are grossly compromised, abused and trampled on with impunity. It is this basis that the researcher examines the challenges facing the Abuja media houses is facing in promoting good governance in Nigeria.

1.3     Objective of the study

The main goal and objective of this study is to examine the challenges of the Abuja media houses when it comes to the promoting good governance in Nigeria. Specifically, the study intends to achieve the following objectives:

1. To examine the role the media plays in the promotion of good governance in Nigeria;
2. To examine the awareness of the Nigerian journalists (Abuja) on the issue which media corruption;
3. To assess the public opinion(s) concerning the Abuja media and good governance;
4. To settle on measures or techniques that could be taken in order to curtail corrupt practices in the media.

1.4     Research Questions

The research will be guided by the following research questions:

1. What is the role of the Abuja media station in promoting good governance in Nigeria?
2. What is the perception of Abuja journalists on the issue of media corruption?
3. What are the opinion(s) of the public concerning the Abuja media and good governance?
4. What measures could be taken in order to curb corrupt practices in the media?

1.5      Research Hypotheses

1. There is no major connection between the roles of the Abuja media and the promotion good governance in Nigeria;
2. There is no significant relationship between public opinion(s) concerning the Nigerian media and good governance;
3. There is no significant relationship between the opinion(s) of the public and the Nigerian media and good governance;
4. There significant relationship between measures that could be taken and curbing corrupt practices in the media starting with Abuja media stations.

1.6     Scope of the Study

The study adopts the social responsibility and agenda setting ideas of the mass media to access the goals and objective of the research which is an examination of the challenges the

Abuja media is facing in promoting good governance in our beloved country Nigeria.

1.7     Significance of the study

This investigation is critical because of certain reasons which are:

The investigation will offer bits of knowledge to peruse or specialists on the part of the Abuja media plays in promoting good governance in Nigeria. Individuals from the media and government authorities will likewise discover the discoveries of this investigation valuable and instructive as far as the perception of Nigerians on the jobs the media play in the advancement of good governance of the country. This exploration will later fill in as assessments of public opinion for both media experts and the government.

Additionally, understudies and analysts who might need to complete future exploration on comparative subjects will discover this examination as a helpful wellspring of materials for their work. In conclusion, this examination is helpful for its commitment to information as it will expand the written works in media rehearses.

MASS MEDIA AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA; THE CASE OF SOME ABUJA BASED MEDIA ORGANIZATION

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