Framing of the anti-graft war in select Nigerian newspapers

Abstract

This paper is a content analytical study of newspaper framing of the anti-graft war in Nigeria by select Nigerian newspapers. The rationale for the study was to content analyse the framing of the anti- grant war by Guardian and Punch within the period of one year (June 2015 to May 2016). Systematic random sampling was adopted to select samples from the select newspapers. Findings showed that even though there were numerous corruption related stories in the two newspapers, prominence was not given to corruption stories. It was, therefore recommended among others, that more prominence should be given to anti-graft issues by Nigerian media in order to set and promote policy agenda and that more attention should be paid to in-depth analysis and investigative reporting of corruption related issues.