Political Reporting and Electoral Violence in Nigeria, 1999-2011

This book discuses political reporting and electoral violence in Nigeria from 1999-2011. It noted that violence has become a recurring problem in most of the post-independent elections in Nigeria. The book observed that hardly was there any election in the post- independent era in Nigeria that did not end in serious disputations, crisis, violence and bloodletting such that academics across disciplines declared that since independence on October 1, 1960, the electioneering process in Nigeria has been an experience of tears, blood and sorrow. The painful aspect of the electoral process in Nigeria is that the mass media were implicated in all the violence which trailed the conduct of all the post independent elections.