Keyword : President Buhari, Medical trip, Content analysis
Author(s) : CHUKWUDI JUSTUS ANYIANUKA, PhD
Abstract :
This study examined the framing of President Buhari‘s medical trips in the Leadership, Daily Trust, Punch, and Vanguard newspapers. Anchored on the Framing theory by Entman, the study sought to determine the dominant frames, sources cited and tone of frames in the stated newspapers‘ framing of the president‘s medical trips to London, UK. Deploying content analysis, a total of 255 stories that covered the period of the medical trips: 6th – 9th June 2016, 9th January – 10th March 2017, and 7th May – 19th August 2017, were examined from the population of 96 editions of the four newspapers. Findings indicate the dominance of the responsibility frame followed by the morality frame in the framing of the medical trips. It was also found that most of the newspaper's stories cited interest groups as their sources, while the tone of framing was found to be negative. Based on the result of the study, the researcher concludes that the sources cited influenced the frames and tone of reportage of Buhari‘s medical trips. Results of this research also show an insignificant representation of the economic frames in the four newspapers' content analyzed. It, therefore, recommended, among others, that Nigerian newspapers should pay attention to the economic implications of overseas medical trips such as the pressure it imposes on the local currency from sourcing foreign exchange for medical bills and other costs of travel, the erosion of investors confidence in the health sector, the flight of cash in billions of naira expended by Nigerians on medical tourism, and the resulting total neglect of the domestic health sector, since funds that would have been invested in the sector is channeled into developing the economy of the nations where the medical trips are made, and in this case, the UK economy.
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