Soliu Hamzat | May 5, 2022
Abstract
Information disorder is increasingly distorting economic and political spaces across the world. Nigeria’s economic policies are among the most highly criticized policies in Africa and this is partly because they are policies in and on the largest economy in the continent. This situation has implications for the country’s political space because the social and political protests against regimes are often due to the poor level of their respective economic performances. The aim of the study, therefore, is to examine the determinants of information disorder within the context of two economic policies in Nigeria. A qualitative content analysis approach is utilized to achieve the objective of the study. The standard of evaluation of what economic policies ought to be is the position of the country’s constitution on how the economy should be run. A descriptive and inferential analysis was carried out on the data obtained through content analysis. The conclusion of the study is that already held views by the public with regards to how an economy should be run and the views of the opposition party against the ideological path of the country’s economy are the two main factors accounting for how much information disorder the country experiences about its economy. The study, therefore, recommends that existing regulatory authorities should make clear the ideological position of the country to the public well enough to clear the air about the direction of its economic policies at any time.
