This study was carried out to evaluate the influence of broadcast media on the knowledge of mental health among Nigerian audience. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design with the questionnaire used as the research instrument for data collection. The study population comprised the broadcast media audience in Nigerian, drawn from Abuja, Lagos and Kano. Data collected was analysed through descriptive statistics, while findings had shown an inadequate exposure to mental health related issues in the broadcast media among Nigerians as only substance abuse received higher attention in the broadcast media compared to other mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress symptoms, stress, sleep problems, mood disorders, psychotic disorders and eating disorders among others. Finding also revealed a lack of in depth reportage of mental health in the broadcast media because straight news rather than other in depth programmes is more often used for mental health information for the people. This, as another finding indicated, has led to very low knowledge of the mental health related issues among the Nigerian audience. The contribution of broadcast media so far, as this study concluded, is insufficient to provide the desired knowledge and attract the kind of response that would greatly address current challenges associated with mental health in Nigeria.

This study adopted mixed research methods to investigate how ideological themes in social media political campaigns have influenced voters’ education and participation in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections. Through questionnaire and interview research instruments, the study found that in the last 2023 General Elections, Facebook was more often used for political campaigns in Nigeria compared to Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, google+, Facebook, WhatsApp and Blogs. These social media platforms, as the findings demonstrated, were more accessible to the voters thus, have easily became tools for political campaigns and were used to a great extent for that purpose. Unfortunately, as finding indicated, the ideological themes dominant in these platforms (social media) were to a great extent, negative as they were dominated by insults, abuse of opponents, hate speeches, falsehood, blame shifting, ethnocentric and religious undertones, anxiety and apathy among others, thereby, to a great extent, contributing to apathy among majority of voters in participating in the elections. Posting, commenting and sharing were the various ways through which those ideological campaign messages were spread to voters during the period of the last elections. The study concluded that social media has come to stay as platforms for use among stakeholders during political campaigns but its influence is abused by negative ideological construction which to a great extent, affects voters’ education and turn up in elections in Nigeria.