Periscoping the (NWICO) Debate Using Nigerian Press Coverage of Darfur Conflict in Sudan as a Case Study

Okoro, Nnanyelugo; Obeni, Emmanuel

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dc.contributor.author	Okoro, Nnanyelugo
dc.contributor.author	Obeni, Emmanuel
dc.date.accessioned	2018-03-26T15:38:43Z
dc.date.available	2018-03-26T15:38:43Z
dc.date.issued	2017-08-04
dc.identifier.citation	Okoro, N. & Obeni, E. (2017). Periscoping the Nwico Debate Using Nigerian Press Coverage of Darfur Conflict in Sudan as a Case Study. International Journal of Communication. Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 69-95	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://repository.unn.edu.ng:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6311
dc.description	INTRODUCTION Nearly a decade after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) abandoned discussion on the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO), ending years of contentious debate during which the United States of America and Britain quit the United Nations Agency, about 30 Information ministers from the Non-Aligned developing countries resurrected NWICO in Abuja, Nigeria (Bullen, 1997: I). Rising from their meeting in the Nigerian capital in September 1996, the ministers from Egypt, Bangladesh, Colombia, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, Iraq and about two-dozen other Non-Aligned countries reanimated the NWICO debate in the following declaration: • Developed countries are employing their media to disseminate false and distorted information of events taking place in developing countries. • The struggle for the New World Information and Communication Order should be …	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	International Journal of Communication.	en_US
dc.subject	Darfur Conflict-Sudan	en_US
dc.subject	New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO)-Nigeria	en_US
dc.subject	Press-Nigeria	en_US
dc.title	Periscoping the (NWICO) Debate Using Nigerian Press Coverage of Darfur Conflict in Sudan as a Case Study	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US