Media, Ethnic Hegemony and Conflict in Africa: The Northern-Southern Nigerian Media Reportage on Insurgency

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Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria Faculty of Arts Department of Religions and Peace Studies Peace Studies Unit

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This study analyzing the media reportage on insurgence issues in the Northern-Southern
Nigerian, where there is need for the reporters to be professionally inclined not to create conflict
in transforming conflicts. The insurgence group had their motive to create disharmony, fear,
confusion, and misunderstanding to achieve their nefarious desires on the nation’s states. It is the
responsibility of the media to understand the significance of their profession to operate in critical
form for the government to search for a new course for the one becoming of the insurgence group < br />through the media reportage. As a concomitant draw out, the study will enrich the literature on the
nature of the media reportage on global terrorism, and insurgence groups on the rise in Africa. The
study of this nature increases and improves scholars and experts on insurgence media reportage
and tailors their expertise skills towards peace journalism.

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