NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE GUARDIAN AND PUNCH NEWSPAPER BETWEEN JANUARY TO JUNE 2019

The international conference on population and Development (ICPD) have held several conference reinforcing the same message that health, particularly women’s health and reproductive rights be guaranteed if grave injustice and denial of human rights are not to be committed. Still, Nigeria is faced with the problem of equality and so it affects all areas in women’s lives. Therefore, this research work was set out to study the Newspaper coverage in ' protecting women’s health and reproductive rights in Nigeria (a content analysis of the Guardian and Punch Newspapers. The two newspaper will be comparatively analysed to find out the one that gave adequate coverage to the above research topic through news articles, features, editorials, opinion columns, direction of stories e.t.c. whether favourable or unfavourable and prominence given by the papers during the period under study (January - June 2012). Content analysis and coding sheet were the major sources of data collection. However, the researcher content analysed (344) copies of the newspapers of Mondays to Fridays. From the analysis and the discussion of findings, the researcher concluded that to a large extent the press is an effective means of communicating the protection of women’s health and reproductive rights to a large audience.