Research
Coverage of the 2016-2017 Economic Recession in Selected Newspapers in Nigeria
Earnest Hemingway, an American writer, produced considerable novels in the history of English literatutre. Hemingway’s The Oldman and the Sea is a story of oldman’s struggle and his helplessness against destiny. Like Greek tragedians, Hemingway accepts the harshness of destiny in man’s life. It is very well said “Man proposes and God disposes†that clearly denotes the role of destiny in man’s life. The story of The Oldman and the Sea is universal because it reveals how human beings struggle to get something in life but sometimes crushed under the wheels of destiny. The old man has indomitable spirit and sea experience yet he is unable to catch the fish for a few days. One day, he caught the big fish called the Marlin but it was too big for him to drag to the shore. The Old man tried to drag the Marlin to the shore but in a midway its blood attracted the Sharks and he brought only its skeleton on the shore. So Hemingway talks about the helplessness of man against destiny through the character of an old man. This paper is a sincere effort to display man’s helplessness against destiny through the character of old man.
Newspaper Coverage of the Economic Recession under the Buhari Administion: A Study of Guardian and Vanguard
This study assessed the Newspaper Coverage of Economic Recession by Guardian and Vanguard newspapers. This work was done to find out how Nigerian newspapers report the current Economic Recession under Buhari Administration. Content analysis was the research method used while code sheet was the instrument used in gathering data. The population of study amounted to 138 editions of the selected newspapers, 69 editions for each. This was got through the stratified sampling technique. Based on the descriptive data analysis, the study reveals that low significance was given to the coverage of the economic recession as most of the stories by both newspapers appeared in the inside pages coupled with the fact that most of stories were not illustrated. It was discovered that most stories were not reported through the human interest angle. The researchers recommended that the newspapers should constructively attach significance to the coverage of the economic recession. The newspapers were also encouraged to report economic recession more from the angle of human interest.
