The Role Of Television On Educating The Public On The Preventive Measures Against The Spread Of Corona Virus In Nigeria

The Role Of Television On Educating The Public On The Preventive Measures Against The Spread Of Corona Virus In Nigeria

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the Study

At the case of any outbreak of conditions in a country, it’s the responsibility of the government through the Ministry of health to rise to the challenges by appropriating good quantum of plutocrat and setting up installations to combat the contagion,Non-Governmental bodies and other public and International Health and co-operate Associations must of a necessity produce mindfulness through mass media and other communication forms by sensitizing the public on the causes, signs and symptoms of the complaint, preventative and defensive measures against the complaint therefore the outbreak of Corona contagion conditions( COVID- 19) needed the same procedure of creating mindfulness.

The outbreak of nimbus contagion COVID- 19 has incontestably taken the world ignorant, unrehearsed therefore, leaving the affecting country to suffer the ruinous dead heads as well as profitable breakdown etc. In Nigeria, the present of the deadly contagion knows as nimbus contagion, COVID- 19, was verified officially on the 27th February 2020 after a virology laboratory was came out at the Lagos university tutoring Sanitarium on the suspected Italian man who arrived Nigeria from Milan on February 24, 2020 on the Turkish Airline.

mindfulness programme on any issue simply gives detailed information about the issue at hand. TV is a major medium for dispersion of information to the public while Nigeria Television Authority( NTA) is one of the multitudinous channels that has the statutory responsibility for transmission of these information via TV. NTA has so numerous branches and sub stations across the country TV is a important tool for the transfer of information, generalities and ideas to both general and specific cult. It plays an important part in advancing public health

pretensions

Over the times, the Nigeria Television Authority( NTA) has been performing critically well in the area of information dispersion, educating the crowd and playing advocacy places most especially in critical moments and events. TV stations in the total are anticipated to do jingles, announcements and programme which would acclimatize the millions on the the preventative measures and safety measures of nimbus contagion.

Statement Of The Problem.

Community mindfulness of the threat factors for Corona infection and the defensive measures individualities can take. The government charitable groups, Non Governmental Organizations( NGOs) and other agencies hence so important created mindfulness juggernauts on the Corona contagion similar mindfulness includes putting dispatches and jingles on radio and TV stations and putting bills around communities as part of a long term programme to inform the public and help help farther infections. Others include organizing forums and shops on Corona topic, as well as taking to the thoroughfares and townlets educating the public on how to respond to the outbreak. Necessary mindfulness on Corona contagion by NTA in the Niger Delta region necessitates the exploration for the colorful programme mindfulness juggernauts similar as jingles programme and daily dispatches on information about Corona contagion carried out by the TV broadcasting States at the Niger Delta region.

Ideal Of The Study

The study is set to examine the part of TV on Educating the Public on the preventative measures against the spread of nimbus contagion inNigeria.Specifically it’s geared

1. To examine the different measures to help the spread of nimbus contagion

2. To examine how TV station educate people on the preventative measures against to spread of nimbus contagion

3. To examine the position of the involvement of TV authorities on educating the millions about covid- 19 preventative measures

Significance Of The Study

The study in it wholeness will be salutary to the body of knowledge. Specifically it’ll expose government and private possessed TV station on the need to grease regular mindfulness covid- 19 preventative measures. It’ll enable media presenters come with creative and development acquainted programs to insure that the spread of of nimbus contagion is reduced to the barest minimum. It’ll equip the millions with immediate information on the need to misbehave with safety measures as announced on the boxes stations for their particular health benefit as this will check the spread of nimbus contagion.

Exploration Question

1. What are the measures to help the spread of nimbus contagion?

2. How does TV station educate people on the preventative measures against to spread of nimbus contagion?

3. What’s involvement position of TV authorities on educating the millions about covid- 19 preventative measures?

Compass Of The Study

The study is set to examine the part of TV on Educating the Public on the preventative measures against the spread of nimbus contagion in Nigeria using Nigeria Television Authority( NTA) as a case study

Limitations Of The Study

fiscal constraint – inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).

Time constraint – The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the explorationwork.Time factor disguise another constraint since having to manage in this exploration which went contemporaneously within the time schedule of other academic work making it insolvable to take over this study in large further representative skill

Description Of Terms

COVID- 19Corona contagion complaint 2019( COVID- 19) is defined as illness caused by a new nimbus contagion called severe acute respiratory pattern nimbus contagion 2( SARS- CoV- 2.

part A part is a set of connected actions, rights, scores, beliefs, and morals as conceptualized by people in a social situation

MediaThe term media, which is the plural of medium, refers to the communication channels through which we circulate news, music, pictures, education, promotional dispatches and other data. It includes physical and online journals and magazines, TV, radio, billboards, telephone, the Internet, fax and billboards.

TV an electronic system of transmitting flash images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a line or through space by outfit that converts light and sound into electrical swells and reconverts them into visible light shafts and audible sound.