Browsing by Author "Inobemhe, Kelvin"

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    Discourse on the Impact of Hate Speech on Nigeria’s Democracy
    (Department of Mass Communication, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-01-01) Inobemhe, Kelvin; Salisu, Mohammed Yakubu; Santas, Tsegyu; Udeh, Nick-Tansi SAint; Asemah, Ezekiel S.
    The study with the aid of documentary research method sought necessary information to investigate the interrelationship between political communication and national security in a digital age, focusing on the impact of hate speech on Nigeria’s democracy. The researchers highlighted the dangers of hate speech in the form of political commentary as amplified by new media platforms. It recommended among others, appropriate steps necessary to navigate through difficult political atmosphere created by sophisticated technology and made even worse with the use of harsh political language/tone
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    Journalists Safety and Coverage of Health Epidemics in Nigeria: Lessons from: Covid-19 Pandemic
    (Department of Mass Communication, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2015-03-06) Josiah, Sabo Kente; Inobemhe, Kelvin; Santas, Tsegyu
    Coverage of health epidemics is one of the cardinal responsibility of journalists the world over. This onerous task falls within the essential functions of media men to the society. During period of health epidemics, the populace largely depends on the media to furnish them with critical information about developing stories concerning health crisis. In truth, it is impossible for the journalist to cover the stories from self-quarantine. However, it has been observed in recent times that journalists are not being accorded the same, treatment or care given to medical personnel by the government. And this posture has posed huge challenge to the personal safety of media men in covering health epidemics in Africa. As major front liners in mitigating the spread of viruses in the society, their roles and responsibilities are often forgotten and as such led to the death of several journalists in the course of covering health epidemics. This study attempts to unravel the problem of journalist’s safety issues in the coverage of the coronavirus disease in Nigeria. Employing the library method of data collection, the study unravels the issues or problems and makes a case for journalists covering health epidemics to be adequately taken care of in their quest to furnish their audience with information. The study concludes that safety issues faced by journalists faced amid Covid-19 pandemic ranges from physical, social, psychological and more and had negative impact on the efforts make by journalists and media organizations in the fight against the disease. The study recommends that government and other stakeholders in society to regard journalists covering health disasters as essential workers like their counterparts in the medical profession and therefore make provision for their safety.
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    PERCEPTION OF EDITORIAL POLICIES OF SELECT NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS AMONG NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS
    (Department of Mass Communication, Nasarawa Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2023-07-09) Adamu, Abdullahi; Tahiru, Halima; Inobemhe, Kelvin
    The study “Perception of editorial policies of select Nigerian newspapers among Nasarawa State University academics” sought to gauge the perceptions of academic staff of NSUK on the editorial policies of Daily Trust and Daily Champion newspapers. Survey research was the design for the study and the instrument for data gathering was the Questionnaire. Study instruments were personally distributed to a sample of 250 academics with 100% percent retrieval and the data analysed to arrive at the findings. Among many others, the study found that there is open display of sentiments in the editorials of the newspapers. On the basis of the findings, the study concludes that for the sentiments to be glaring, it means there is editorial policy at Daily Trust and Daily Champion - but that sentiments and biases are visible in their publication.
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    Social Media Infodemic and the Quest for National Cohesion and Security in Nigeria
    (Department of Mass Communication, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-04-10) Santas, Tsegyu; Inobemhe, Kelvin; Salisu, Mohammed Yakubu