CTIZEN JOURNALISM: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA ASA DEVELOPING NATION

This project, citizen journalism: prospect and challenges in Nigeria as a developing nation. The study employs the survey research method for data collection. Findings from the study indicate that benefit of citizen journalism practice makes known the happenings around societies, and exposes things journalist would want to cover or ignored. The findings also revealed the challenges confronting citizen journalism practice are publishing or posting of fake news on the internet, content providers, reporters and internet users are not well trained and citizen journalism are not govern by the ethics of the profession. Furthermore, the findings also reveal that there will be a future where significant information will be posted online or internet, there will be an informed society and there will also be increase in the number of internet users. The conclusion thus indicates that in other to avoid the control the challenges using the social media, the government must encourage citizens of the country to be computer literate and also to create a free ICT training centre that would help in creating awareness about the use of social media both as a tool for communication.