NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA:
MAY 2015-2017
Grace Oluwatofunmi Adeyemo
Department of Communication and Language Arts,
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
oluwatofunmigrace@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1103-7958
And
Olugbenga Elegbe Ph.D.
Department of Communication and Language Arts,
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
elegbeolugbenga@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2407-1531
ABSTRACT
The issue of terrorism has posed a continuous threat to Nigeria and Nigerians. Researchers
have been devoting time to examining the dynamics of media ownership in influencing
press coverage of important issues like pandemics, terrorism, insurgency, war, civil unrest,
etc., as it is believed to be the dominant force influencing news decisions and policy. This
study, which makes use of the social responsibility theory, looks at how the ownership
factor affects coverage of terrorism in Nigeria during the two years under the former
president Muhammadu Buhari, from May 29, 2015, to May 29, 2017, when terrorist
activity was highly prevalent in the country. Quantitative Content Analysis was employed
as the research method, and three newspapers (The Gu