Since Nigeria returned to democratic governance in May 1999, the fight against corruption has been a major preoccupation of every administration in the country. This paper comparatively analysed the frequency, prominence and depth of coverage given to this "fight" by the Nigerian media during the administrations of former President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007) and incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari (2015-date). Content analysis was the research instrument used to generate data. For Obasanjo era, 39 issues each of The News and TELL magazines selected through systematic sampling technique from the first three years of the administration were used; while for Buhari era, 26 issues each of two newspapers-the privately-owned Sun, and State Governmentowned Nigerian Chronicle-were selected from within the first six months of 2017 based on the composite week sampling technique. Content categories of editorial items on corruption used were bribery, forgery/perjury, fraud, misappropriation and mismanagement, while units of analysis were news, features/opinions/columns, editorials, photographs/cartoons, advertorials, and letters to editor. Attention score was on prominence, depth, frequency, and slant. Theoretical framework anchored on the Agenda-Setting Theory. Research findings from each segment of the study were descriptively discussed and comparatively analysed using frequency count, attention score and percentage mean. It was concluded that the trends in media coverage under the two administrations were similar. Recommendations made included: that the media should be more consistent, persistent and responsible in their coverage of anti-corruption issues; while the government should be more proactive and all-inclusive in the fight against corruption.

Article HistoryThis paper seeks to examine the Efik naming system and how it communicates the cultural and genealogical identity of the Efik people of Cross River State of Nigeria. Indepth interviewing is the research technique used for this study. Altogether, 28 persons -nine traditional rulers and 19 community elders -were interviewed; and this is augmented by the researcher's intuitive knowledge. The theoretical framework adopted for the study is Bormann's symbolic convergence symbol theory (SCT). Discussion is done in a descriptive form. Findings show that an average Efik person can bear up to six names -enyiñ emana (birth name), usio enyiñ (given name), udori enyiñ or nditik enyiñ (nickname), enyiñ uko or enyiñ akparawa (honorific or pet name), and can also have enyiñ uduök-mmöñ (baptismal name) and enyiñ edisöñö (confirmation name), if he/she is a Christian, especially of the Catholic faith. The implication of these findings is that name, among the Efik people, has the capacity to communicate the identity, birthday, place of origin, genealogy, achievement, attribute, and ancestry of its bearer though many Efik people are now deviating from the established naming conventions that had existed among them. To, therefore, preserve the Efik tradition and culture, this paper recommends that the naming system should be respected and maintained. Contribution/ Originality:This study is one of the very few studies which have investigated the Efik naming system. However, it is original in its examination of how these names communicate the culturaland genealogical identities as well as personal attributes of the Efik people.

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), "we are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record" with an unprecedented 68.5 million people forced from home globally (United Nations High Commission on Refugees, 2018). Among those affected are the Bakassi people in the Cross River State of Nigeria, who were forced to abandon their ancestral home due to the World Court's judgment of 10 October 2002 and Greentree Agreement of 12 June 2006 that ceded their oil and natural gas-rich peninsula to Cameroon. This paper aimed at communicating the challenges faced by these people who now live as refugees in their own country as well as assessing the public relations implications of their geographical displacement, social dislocation, and economic dispossession. The study employed the survey method and used the questionnaire to obtain data from 200 internally-displaced persons of Bakassi; as well as unstructured interview to gather additional information from five Government officials and five Bakassi elites who were involved in resettling these people. Egon's refugee theory (Kunz, 1981) Peter's social integration theory (Blau, 1960) and James Grunig's two-way symmetrical model of public relations (1984) formed the theoretical framework of the study. Data obtained were presented quantitatively, and analysed descriptively. Based on the conclusion that there is a noticeable Public Relations slack in the relationship between Government and the Bakassi IDPs, it was recommended that adequate efforts should be made to fill the observed gaps.

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The paper considers the reportage of tragic events in Nigeria by ordinary citizens, using mobile phones and other digital devices. The focus is on the moral agency of citizenphotojournalists, the dilemma inherent in the exercise of that agency, the technological structure that enable/impede such agency, and the resulting ethical tragedy for citizenship photojournalism. The questions addressed are: On what cultural activity rests the moral agency of citizen-photojournalists in Nigeria? How does mobile technology enable or impede the exercise of that moral agency? How do the citizens who own and use mobile technology reconcile the duty of care for victims of tragic public incidences and the immediate concern to represent events in ways that are fresh and immediate? Does the failure to provide care for victims of tragic events in the course of citizenship reporting constitute an ethical tragedy for the practice? Two cases of citizenship visual reporting in relation to tragic events in Lagos-Nigeria are studied (the Badagry boy's saga and the Odunfa-Okepopo conflict). Mixed methods approach (content analysis and oral interview) is used in a qualitative way to generate data. The theory of media witnessing is used to ground the study. Findings show that in each case of citizen visual reporting, there is a serious negligence of the requisite duty of care towards victims of tragic public situations, resulting in an unconscious or deliberate undermining of some of the core values of citizenship journalism. Such negligence is also a revelation of the hypocrisy underlying the practice of citizenship photojournalism. Beyond social regulatory needs, the paper recommends careful balancing in practice responsibilities.