Silas Jonathan | June 13, 2023 The Sierra Leone election, scheduled for Saturday, June 24, 2023, is shaping up to be a highly competitive race with 13 candidates and political

Folarin Jamiu | August 22, 2020 Abstract Could stakeholders address the challenges associated with information disorder in Nigeria without understanding the complexities of the fact-checking landscape? This is the question

Raji Rasaki | August 26, 2020 Executive Summary There have been studies conducted on what exactly constitutes “fake news” and its variants. Researchers have looked into the Nigerian examples of

Raheemat Adeniran | September 18, 2020 Summary On July 28, Nigerian social media space was flooded with several versions of a video of a woman, identified as Stella Immanuel, among

Phillip Acquaye | October 5, 2020 Abstract  Using a focus group discussion, this study sought to understand how media audiences perceive information in the media environment in Ghana. The study

Introduction The impact of media technology on democracy is coming under increased scrutiny  all over the world. New media’s disruption of an existing order that is characterized  by the rise

Edward Samuel | April 27, 2022 Introduction When social media first entered the Nigerian technology space in 1995 through the  UNESCO sponsored project, named the Reginal Informatics Networks for Africa

Introduction  Elections, according to Robert A. Pastor, ‘are both the supreme political act and a  complicated administrative exercise at the heart of democracy. Pastor suggests that  democracy is easily compromised