The study examined the current status of folktale practice in connection with the patronage of television and other forms of digital resources for communication and entertainment in Delta State, Nigeria. Recent studies suggest that folktale's practice is declining because of television and other digital communication media. Therefore, this study investigated the current state of folktale practice in Delta State and its relation with watching television and using digital communication and entertainment resources. We adopted the Uses and Gratification theory as the theoretical guide and used survey and questionnaire as the method and instrument. We analyzed the data with descriptive and inferential statistics and tested at a 0.05 level of significance. We found that the respondents do not partake in folktale practice, unlike most of them that watch television always and use other digital resources of communication and entertainment frequently. They prefer watching television and using other digital resources of communication and entertainment to the folktale. We also establish a significant correlation between watching television and digital communication resources and the decline in Delta State's folktale practice.   Received: 3 January 2021 / Accepted: 22 March 2021/ Published: 10 May 2021

This study adopts the principles that underpin participatory development communication in order to highlight the ideology that guides oil corporations’ development communication practices and strategies in Nigeria. The study specifically examines the usage of Global Memorandums of Understanding (GMoUs) by oil firms to engage people in community-based development initiatives. Given Shell and Chevron's stranglehold in onshore, shallow, and deep-water exploration and development in Nigeria, 16 oil-producing localities in their operational zones were chosen at random for the study. The study's design was cross-sectional and drew from survey procedures. 400 respondents were selected through a multistage selection approach from the study’s population for the purposes of data collection and analysis. The study found that although indigenes of the Niger Delta are aware of the GMoUs programmes, they lack the knowledge to take part in them. Thus, the Niger Delta indigenous people claim that the GMoUs programmes are self-serving and need to be carefully adapted to satisfy the desire of the people for bottom-up induced development. The study suggests that development communication experts be involved in the conception and implementation of the ideas because the GMoU model, which oil companies adopted, was flawed in its conception due to a potential lack of sufficient literature review for development agents to gain the understanding needed to guide implementation.

"Educational Broadcasting" is a course studied in universities and it promotes national development by providing widespread quality education where classroom teaching-and-learning is difficult/impossible, like during the Covid-19 lockdowns. By teaching the course with rich curricula, Nigerian universities would be heeding Development Media Theory's (DMT) call for broadcasters (and their trainers) to collaborate with the government to enhance national development. The study adopted survey and content analysis to examine the availability of "Educational Broadcasting" in selected Nigerian universities and the curricular variability. We analysed data with simple percentages and ANOVA and findings show a high level of "Educational Broadcasting" availability and rich variability in curricular content specifications. Broadcasting educators in Nigerian universities partner with the government to promote quality education through the proper training of educational broadcasters proposed by DMT. The study calls on all communication studies departments in Nigerian universities to offer educational broadcasting with significant enrichment on the prescribed benchmark.