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Methods: We searched, collected, and analysed published news reports about suicide from 10 English newspapers in Nigeria. A total of 350 suicide reports were assessed between January 2010 and December 2019 after screening and sorting.

The COVID-19 pandemic saw a number of media organisations come up with innovative ideas to quell the spread of misinformation by ensuring fact-checked information was available in a number of languages. BBC Africa launched a minute-long broadcast that aimed to provide an educational aspect as well as provide the audience with updated information. This broadcast segment was also published on the phone app of mobile company MTN. However, in line with global trends, the pandemic adversely affected advertising spend in Nigeria, with analysts forecasting that Nigerian newspapers may be forced to cut about 10% of staff.5

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Although HIV was first reported in Nigeria in 1986, the study period coincided with the implementation of the first phase of Nigeria'smulti-sectoral and community-based national response to the epidemic. The four newspapers surveyed in the present study are the Guardian, Punch, New Nigerian and Daily Trust. The Guardian and Punch are published in southern Nigeria while New Nigerian and Daily Trust are published in the North. These papers represent an important outlet for health information. They have been in the forefront of the crusade against HIV/AIDS [7]. In addition, newspapers are widely cited sources of information on HIV/AIDS issues in Nigeria [8].

Altogether, the four newspapers devoted a total of 276 news stories to HIV/AIDS (64.9% activity-oriented). The proportions of activity-oriented HIV/AIDS news stories in the Daily Trust was 59.3%; The Guardian 61.7%; New Nigerian, 67.7%, and The Punch 67.1%. Out of the 279 attention scores allotted to all the news stories in the content categories, activity-oriented news stories had more points than cognitive-oriented news stories; 70.6% (197). No news story on HIV/AIDS made front and back pages lead. There were equal numbers of HIV/AIDS activity and cognitive front page news stories. However, among the news stories which constituted the back page, page 2 and other inside pages, activity-oriented news stories had more attention scores than cognitive-oriented news stories. Overall, HIV/AIDS news stories occupied 11637.8 column centimeters. While HIV/AIDS activity-oriented news stories accounted for 59.7% (6951.9col.cms), HIV/AIDS cognitive-oriented news stories accounted for 40.3% (or 4685.9 col.cms).

Two of the four newspapers (Daily Trust and New Nigerian) did not publish HIV/AIDS editorials at all during the period studied. There were nine editorials on HIV/AIDS. Eight of these appeared in The Guardian. Of the eight editorials in The Guardian, five were activity-oriented. The only editorial featured in The Punch was cognitive-oriented.

There were more HIV/AIDS activity-oriented feature articles (60.7%) than HIV/AIDS cognitive-oriented feature articles. Seventy-one percent of feature articles in the Daily Trust were activity oriented as were 56.4% in The Guardian, 60.0% in the New Nigerian, and 63.6% in the Punch. The ratio of space in col.cms occupied by HIV/AIDS activity-oriented feature articles to HIV/AIDS cognitive-oriented feature articles in all the newspapers put together indicates that HIV/AIDS activity-oriented feature articles occupied more space than HIV/AIDS cognitive feature articles. During the period studied, the four Nigerian newspapers devoted a space of 5341.1 col.cms (or 50.6%) to activity-oriented feature articles and a space of 5221 col.cms (or 49.4%) to cognitive-oriented feature articles. In the New Nigerian and the Punch however, HIV/AIDS cognitive-oriented feature articles occupied more space than HIV/AIDS activity-oriented feature articles. In New Nigerian 44.4% (240col.cms) of space was dedicated to activity-oriented feature articles while 48.6% (2040 col.cms) was dedicated to activity-oriented feature stories. The Guardian and the Daily Trustdevoted more space to HIV/AIDS activity oriented feature articles (56.4% (2640.5 col.cms) and 70% (420.6 col.cms) respectively.

The dominance of activity information further shows that Nigerian newspapers in their expanded roles may be capable of providing national and international models of strategic responses to diseases. The dominance of HIV/AIDS activity-oriented editorials as well as feature articles is critical because these items, more than news stories, have the capacity to lay bare the ways in which HIV/AIDS exacerbates social prejudices, economic inequalities, discriminatory practices and political injustices. Although, editorials and feature articles have the capacity to stimulate debate and foster a social environment in which AIDS is addressed in a spirit of openness, news stories dominated the HIV/AIDS information items studied. The relative lack of editorials and feature articles may suggest ambivalence occasioned by lack of skill and acknowledge on the part of editorial and feature writers.

A striking feature of the four Nigerian newspapers coverage of HIV/AIDS information was the dominance of HIV/AIDS cognitive-oriented advertisement messages. This is not surprising, as advertisers and advertisement copy writers in Nigeria as elsewhere determine the content and space of advertisement messages.

Archiving work began in December 2020 and plans include an open, digital platform to access the newspapers if the initiative can secure the necessary access to funding, materials, and resources. I spoke to Lawal to learn more about the project.

Almost every Nigerian library has old Nigerian newspapers. An aspect of the constitution that we inherited from the British means English-language newspapers are required to send a copy to libraries. Some have been lost, some are in the most deplorable conditions, but of all the archives I have been to, I never found a librarian that was not invested in their job. A lot of the problems are high-level stuff that goes beyond them.

A. Nigeria became independent in 1960 and my working theory is that by the late 2000s Nigerian newspapers were beginning to come online. This period will show how we have evolved since we became a country. The archives from before 1960 are just sparingly available. They're mostly falling apart and so hard to find.

A. There's an assumption in Nigeria that we do not keep anything, that you can't find anything from our past. But we searched and found newspapers from every day in this period across three libraries [the National Libraries in Sokoto, Abuja and Lagos] just before the pandemic started. We know where they all are.

Some Newspapers depend heavily on advertisements that may be placed by companies owned by powerful people. In some cases, this makes the papers cautious in reporting details of crimes or suspected crimes, and sometimes they carry articles that paint clearly corrupt individuals in a favourable light.[4] An analysis of newspapers shows a strong bias towards coverage of males, reflecting prevalent cultural biases. Few articles discuss women and there are few photographs of women outside the fashion sections.[5]Although earnings have declined since the late 1980s the number of publications has steadily grown.[6]

Online newspapers have become popular since the rise of internet accessibility in Nigeria; more than ten percent of the top fifty websites in the country are devoted to online newspapers. Due to improved mobile penetration and the growth of smartphones, Nigerians have begun to rely on the internet for news. Online newspapers have also been able to bypass government restrictions because content can be shared without the need for any physical infrastructure. The result has been a disruption of the traditional sources of news which have dominated the media industry. Recent online newspapers include Sahara Reporters, Ripples Nigeria, and Premium Times.[7]

In this case, the ACmHPR had to decide whether the decree imposing new registration requirements and procedures, as well as those prohibiting certain newspapers, violated article 9 of the African Charter.

The aim of this study was to examine newspaper representations of women. To do so, the researchers examined four newspapers that were nationally circulated. The four newspapers examined were Vanguard, the Punch, The Guardian, and ThisDay. The duration of the study was three years (January 1st, 2015 to December 31st, 2017). The study sought to achieve three objectives and tested two null hypotheses. The design that was utilized to conduct the study was content analysis while data were collected through the use of a code sheet. In the analysis of the collected data, the researcher deployed simple percentages to describe and explain the outcome while a Chi-Square test of independence was used to test the hypotheses. The result showed that the volume of representation of stories related to women was poor. Additionally, the prominence of newspaper representation of women was less. The researcher recommends, among others, that journalists should improve representation of women.

The purpose of this study was to examine the usage of online newspapers by four categories of members of staff and students of the University of Ibadan community namely: academic staff, non-academic staff, undergraduate students and postgraduate students. The study was guided by Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology theory. Data was collected from 304 randomly selected members of academic and non-academic staff, and students of the University of Ibadan using a questionnaire. The result shows that younger academics are most likely to gain performance advantage using online newspapers more than the older academics. Irrespective of the income and sex of academic staff, the younger academics are most likely to dissipate less energy using online newspapers than the older academics. Income is the only significant factor in respect of use of online newspapers by students. Attitudes of academic staff have no direct relationship with income or age, but female non-academic staff are most likely to have a positive attitude towards using online newspapers compared with their male counterpart. e24fc04721