Keyword : Newspapers, Framing, Education Budget, Rentier State
Author(s) : Okwudiri C. Ekwe, Josephat Ikechukwu Okoye & Oare D. Addeh
Abstract :
Within the last decade in Nigeria scholars in Political science, Economics and Public administration have written extensively on the budget for two critical sectors, education and health. Unfortunately, the media appears to be at the center with several persons accusing it of not playing its watchdog and advocacy function effectively. Hence, this study looks at how Nigerian newspapers have framed budgetary provision for education sector between 2016 and 2019.Using Krejcie and Morgan Sample size calculator, a sample size of 317 was drawn from the population of The Guardian and Punch newspapers at 1788. The systematic random sampling technique was used in this regard and data were generated using content analysis. News, Feature/opinion articles, and illustration were used as the major units of analysis. Framing and Development media theories were used to provide theoretical support for the study. After the analysis, findings revealed that the select newspapers did not give prominence to the budgetary
provision for the education sector as they are not adequately covered. It was also found that the select newspapers reported on education and budget which emphasized the shortage of funding to the education sector from the national budget while reports were not narrowed down to the provision of budget for the education sector. It was revealed that news is the dominant newspaper genre used in reportingnews and budgetary allocation to the education sectors. This study finally concluded that Nigerian newspapers do not frequently cover the budgetary allocation to the education and health sectors compared to other competing issues such as Ruga settlement, Fulani herdsmen and Elections in the country. From content analyzed data, the study recommends the media should not only inform the public on education and the budget allocated to it but should take a step further to analyse the impact of shortage of budgetary allocation to a third world country like Nigeria, balanced and in-depth coverage should be given.
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