TELEVISION AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT IN NIGERIA.

TELEVISION AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT IN NIGERIA.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:

Education in Nigeria today, has assumed a very important position in the country’s development programme.  This accounts for the introduction of the universal free primary education (U.P.E.) in 1976 and the establishment of new primary, secondary and post-secondary schools all over the country. Education could be defined in various ways.  In a very broad sense, education includes every agency, which enables an individual to master his physical and social environment of which he is a member.  But for the purpose of this, education will be defined as an organized and formal instruction, which is given in educational establishments such as schools, colleges and universities. Education has an important role to play in the economy of a nation.  The most important economic function as that of ensuring that the nation’s need for a labour force is satisfied.

However, formal education in Nigeria is no longer confirmed to education establishments only.  The mass media have, in recent times, taken a held and positive step towards enhancing educational development in the country.  An example is that Enugu State Broadcasting (ESBS)

Mass media communication comprised   the institutions and techniques by which specialized groups employ technological devices, that is the press, TV, Radio, Film ETC, to disseminate information to large heterogeneous and widely disperse audience.

This study is particularly concerned with TV and its contribution to educational advancement in the country especially Enugu state.

Television Broadcasting was first established in Nigeria (indeed Africa) on October 31st 1956 in Ibadan, by the their government of the western region of Nigeria.

This station now called Nigeria Television Ibadan (NTA Ibadan) was run as an aim of the former western Nigeria government Broadcasting corporation initially under the trading name western Nigeria Radio services limited, in partnership with oversees rediffusion limited of U.K 

Two years after its inception, the regional Government bought over the shares of the foreign partners, and became  the proprietor. A year after the establishment of the    Ibadan station, the former government of Eastern Nigeria, in October 1960, set up the second Nigeria Television service then known as ENTV.