Communication Policies in Nigeria

Download or read book Communication Policies in Nigeria written by Frank Okwu Ugboajah and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series of monographs published as part of a UNESCO program to analyze the communication policies of selected countries, this report provides information about Nigeria. Various sections of the report discuss the following topics: (1) Nigeria's socioeconomic and political geography, (2) its system of mass communication, (3) its public policies concerning the mass media, (4) the policies of its mass media, (5) the distribution of professionals in the various print and broadcast media, and (6) an alternative communication policy for the country. An appendix contains tables of data, a copy of the code of conduct for the Nigerian press and an editorial on that code, and a list of newspapers and magazines that have been published in Nigeria since 1859. (FL)