Rethinking the Role of Traditional Media on Migration Issues in Nigeria
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Traditional media is widely embraced by both the literate and illiterate population in different
countries. Despite the wide coverage and acceptability of the traditional media in Nigeria, it has
not favourably promoted migration issues, which has constituted national image crisis on an
international scale. The media, having usually promoted their works with the mantra “voxidei,
voxipopuli”, is thus burdened with the duty to liberate the masses by speaking truth to power,
anything short of which is mere patronage of the people and contrary to the fundamental duties
of the media as citizens of the world. This chapter also adopts secondary source of data
collection and a content analysis model to analyse the data gathered, while the analysed data is
presented in a narrative approach. The major finding of this book chapter is that, the known
traditional media houses are playing around politics and money, bringing to life the saying that
he who pays the piper dictates the tune, and this has in turn led to the continuance of illegal and
dehumanising activities around the national borders of the country
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H Social Sciences (General), JA Political science (General)