AN APPRAISAL OF NIGERIAN MEDIA AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ERADICATING CORRUPTION

    This research work has investigated the media as an instrument in eradicating corruption using Obasanjo's Anti-corruption  Crusade (A case study  of the federal Radio operation of Nigeria)
    The objective of this work among other things was to find out the problems that follow corruption and also to find out solutions to the problem based upon which hypothesis were formulated.
    The research work was carried out by using primary and secondary data  like  interview method,  Questionnaire,  personal observation and the review of related literature.
    The literature reviewed includes the journals magazine, textbook periodical, Newspaper, lecturers, seminars.  Response from the respondents show that the major problem in Nigeria is corruption like illegal award of contracts lobbying  syndrome, indiscipline like brown envelop, god-fatherism, unpatriotic ailment, fraudster bad name and bloody practices etc. which prompted president Obasanjo to launch crusade against corruption after the military regime, bringing them to book for prosecuting and punishment due for any offence committed without fear or favour of personality whereby he used federal Radio corporation of Nigeria for quick enhancement.

TITLE PAGE                             II
APPROVAL PAGE                            III
DEDICATION                            IV
ABSTRACT                                VI
TABLE OF CONTENT                        IX

CHAPTER ONE        
1.0    INTRODUCTION                        1
1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY            1
1.2    STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM    5    
1.3    OBJECTIVES  OF THE STUDY            8
1.4    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY            9
1.5    RESEARCH QUESTIONS                11
1.6    RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS                12
1.7    LIMITATION OF THE STUDY                12
1.8    CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL DEFINITION13

CHAPTER TWO
2.1    SOURCES OF LITERATURE                15
2.2    HOW HAVE THESE CORRUPTION PRACTICES AFFECT HUMAN NATURE  19
2.3    WHAT HAS THE MEDIA DONE  ABOUT THIS CORRUPTION ISSUE             21
2.4    SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW        24

CHAPTER THREE
3.1    RESEARCH METHOD                    27
3.2    RESEARCH DESIGN                    27
3.3    RESEARCH SAMPLE                    28
3.4    MEASURING INSTRUMENT                28
3.5    DATA COLLECTION                    31
3.6    DATA ANALYSIS                        32
3.7    EXPECTED RESULT       
           
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1    DATA ANALYSIS                        33
4.2    RESULT                             39
4.3    DISCUSSION                        39

CHAPTER FIVE
5.1    SUMMARY                             41
5.2    RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER STUDY     43
5.3    SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH     44
REFERENCE                        47
QUESTIONNAIRE                        50