HISTORY OF MASS MEDIA IN NIGERIA
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""="">The period between 1891 and 1930
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> was a period full of confrontation, petition and agitation against the colonial
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> government. The period featured newspaper like Weekly Record, The Standard, The Nigeria Chronicle, The Spectator, Lagos daily News of Herbert Macaulay and The Comet.
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> The weekly Record gave new
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> impetus to Nigeria Journalism through the anti-colonial posture of Jackson’s
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> newspaper who believed in the dignity of the black race. This he expressed
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> through his news paper. The newspaper also served as training ground for the
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> future journalist like Ernest Sessei Ikoli who later joined the paper in 1919
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> as the assistant Editor.
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The era also witnessed the
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> arrival of Lord Lugard the Governor General of Nigeria between 1914 and 1919.
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> Lord Lugard did not hide his hatred for the press men of the time, as a result,
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> he sought many means to stop the newspaper men. In response to the agitation,
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> Sir Hugh Clifford the successor of Lord Lugard introduced a constitution which
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> made provision for the representation in the Legislative Council first of its
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> kind in Nigeria, the constitution also made provision for the formation of
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> political party which led to the formation of Nigeria National Democratic Party
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> (NNDP) in 1923. During this period some nationalist movement were formed such as
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> National Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA) led by Casley Hayford.
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Subsequently, in 1934, NYM
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> was formed by Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe and containing some youth militant such as
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> Ernest Sessei Ikoli, H.O Davies, Samuel Akinsaya and Dr. J.C Vanghan as members
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> of the party.
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> As a result of the defeat of
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> NNDP by the NYM, NNDP fizzle out with the victory of NYM in the 1938 election
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> due to intra party wrangle. In 1944 National Council of Nigeria and Cameroon
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> was formed as Herbert Macaulay the publisher of Lagos Daily News as the president
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> and Nnamdi Azikwe the publisher of West African Pilot as the General Secretary.
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> Herbert Macaulay died in 1946 and Nnamdi Azikwe assumed the leadership of NCNC.
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> In 1943 Arthur Richard
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> created three regions in Nigeria namely, The Western, Eastern and Northern
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> Region. The constitution of the Arthur Richard made provision for the formatio
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> of some cultural group such as Egbe Omo Oduduwa (West) and Janiyya Mutane Arewa
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> (North). In 1951, Egbe Omo Oduduwa later became political party with a new name
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""="">– Action Group and Janiyya Mutane Arewa also became a political party with a
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> new name – Northern People Congress. The three political parties that struggle
line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> for the reform of independence of Nigeria were NCNC, AG and NPC.
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In 1960, the alliance of NCNC and NPC made Tafawa Balewa as the Prime Minister and Nnamdi Azikwe as the
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line-height:150%;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""=""> Governor General who in 1963 later became the first president of Nigeria.
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