AN APPRAISAL OF NIGERIAN MEDIA AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ERADICATING CORRUPTION (A CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL RADIO CORPORATION OF NIGERIA’S EFFECTS IN OBASANJO’S ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADE).

ABSTRACT This research work has investigated the media as an instrument in eradicating corruption using Obasanjo’s Anti-corruption  Crusade (A case study  of the federal Radio operation of Nigeria)  The objective of this work among other things was to find out the problems that follow corruption and also to find out solutions to the problem based upon which hypothesis were formulated. The research work was carried out by using primary and secondary data  like  interview method,  Questionnaire,  personal observation and the review of related literature. The literature reviewed includes the journals magazine, textbook periodical, Newspaper, lecturers, seminars.  Response from the respondents show that the major problem in Nigeria is corruption like illegal award of contracts lobbying  syndrome, indiscipline like brown envelop, god-fatherism, unpatriotic ailment, fraudster bad name and bloody practices etc. which prompted president Obasanjo to launch crusade against corruption after the military regime, bringing them to book for prosecuting and punishment due for any offence committed without fear or favour of personality whereby he used federal Radio corporation of Nigeria for quick enhancement.    TABLE OF CONTENT TITLE PAGE II APPROVAL PAGEIII DEDICATIONIV ABSTRACTVI TABLE OF CONTENTIX
CHAPTER ONE 1.0INTRODUCTION1 1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY1 1.2STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM5 1.3OBJECTIVES  OF THE STUDY8 1.4SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY9 1.5RESEARCH QUESTIONS11 1.6RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS12 1.7LIMITATION OF THE STUDY12 1.8CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL DEFINITION13
CHAPTER TWO 2.1SOURCES OF LITERATURE15 2.2HOW HAVE THESE CORRUPTION PRACTICES AFFECT HUMAN NATURE19 2.3WHAT HAS THE MEDIA DONE  ABOUT THIS CORRUPTION ISSUE 21 2.4SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW24
CHAPTER THREE 3.1RESEARCH METHOD27 3.2RESEARCH DESIGN27 3.3RESEARCH SAMPLE28 3.4MEASURING INSTRUMENT28 3.5DATA COLLECTION31 3.6DATA ANALYSIS32 3.7EXPECTED RESULT
CHAPTER FOUR 4.1DATA ANALYSIS33 4.2RESULT 39 4.3DISCUSSION39
CHAPTER FIVE 5.1SUMMARY 41 5.2RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER STUDY 43 5.3SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 44 REFERENCE47 QUESTIONNAIRE50