THE IMPACT OF NIGERIAN PRESS ON SHAPING THE COUNTRY’S POLITICAL STRUCTURE (PERIOD OF STUDY 1999 TO 2004

ABSTRACT This paper examines the role or the impact of Nigerian Press on shaping the country’s political structure period of study 1999-2004. A general study of Nigeria is because it happens to be the period when we witness a transition to civilian rule. Many library materials constituted the sample source and literature review. Dates were also collected through extensive reading of information material on the government administrative policy. There findings showed that by the period of 1999, government activities in respect to the policy of administration supposed to have passed the stages of mobilization to that of execution, and that newspaper will not only covered those activities by use of newstones but also comment on the policy formulation and application through the use of feature articles and editorials. The newspaper also identifies problems that should be solved for the government programmes to succeed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER PAGEI TITLE PAGEII CERTIFICATIONIII DEDICATIONIV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTV ABSTRACTVI TABLE OF CONTENTSVII LIST OF TABLES
CHAPTER ONE 1.0INTRODUCTION1 1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY4 1.2STATEMENT OF RESEARCH PROBLEMS5 1.3OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY7 1.4SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY7 1.5RESEARCH QUESTIONS8 1.6RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS8 1.7LIMITATION OF THE STUDY9 1.8ASSUMPTIONS10
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW11 2.0POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT11 2.1PRESS VOICE OF THE VOICELESS12 2.2BANNING NEWSPAPERS14 2.3HOW FREE IS THE NIGERIA PRESS15 2.4ROLE OF THE PRESS IN THE SOCIETY16 2.5CHALLENGING OF PRESS MAN20 2.6PRESS VIEW ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT  OF NIGERIA22 2.7PRESS AND POWER IN NIGERIA POLITICS28 2.8THE PERIOD OF MUTALA/OBASANJO  MILITARY REGIME29 2.9SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW34
CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY36 3.0RESEARCH DESIGN36 3.1RESEARCH SAMPLE AND PROCEDURE36 3.2MEASURING INSTRUMENTS37 3.3DATA COLLECTION37 3.4DATA ANALYSIS38 3.5EXPECTED RESULT38
CHAPTER FOUR 4.0DATA PRESENTATION AND RESULTS39 4.1SUMMARY OF RESULT44 4.2DISCUSSION46
CHAPTER FIVE 5.0SUMMARY48 5.1RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER STUDY 49 REFERENCE51 APPENDIX53