Leadership challenges, mass media and nation building
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Leadership challenges entail those constraining factors which 1nhibit the political leadership in Nigeria from
optimum performance and from achieving set goals. While arguing that Nigeria has a plethora of them such as:
illiteracy; lack of polit1cal awareness, Weakness institutions, currupt1un in the Society at large and particularly in the
police and judiciary. The others include the nature of Nigerian politics, ethnicity, representative' bureaucracy or
quota system and religious bigotry. The paper maintains that, ,apart from h1ndering growth and development these
factors militate against nat1on builu111g. It concludes on the note that, because the mass media could pass information
across a broad spectrum of the society instantaneously thereby mobilizing and motivating-: the people with relative
case, the mass media arc vcnt.1bk lll'>tr umcnt ~ ol overcoming the leadership challenge and of fostering nation
building. Relying on primary and Secondary data the paper shows that these goals could he achieved if the media
adhere to 1ts tenets fl truth, objectivity and fairness. There is the need to train and retrain mcd1a practitioners.
Furthermore 1t is impo1tctnt to separate professional practice from media,t ownership pointing out that Nigeria is a
state in search of nationhood.
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H Social Sciences (General)