Advances in technology have provided people with unparalleled opportunities to communicate efficiently and in real time. Adults with an inappropriate sexual interest in children have also benefited from developments in information and communications technology, using it to establish contact with them, to develop relationships, and to groom potential victims for sexual abuse and exploitation. Based on this, this study examined how social media has become a gateway for online child grooming. The study was anchored on the luring communication theory. The study adopted in-depth interview as its research design. The study used purposive sampling technique to draw a sample size of 15 experts. Findings from the study revealed that since the introduction of social media platforms, the amount of child sexual abuse content has been increasing yearly as these platforms have become a channel that offenders use in soliciting and sharing of explicit images and videos of minors.

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This study set out to revisit some of the early newspapers in Africa and their relevance to anti-colonial struggle. It examined their audacious confrontation of the colonial masters, what guided their militant approach, and why such nationalistic tendencies are lacking in the post-independent journalism. The key objectives were to locate the influence of nationalistic ideology on the performance of the pre-independence newspapers. Anchored on the twin theories of agenda setting and social responsibility roles of the media, the study adopted the qualitative data collection method, with the library as its main source of data source. Findings showed that what is lacking in the modern African media are well articulated national ideologies from which the media could draw inspiration in their practices. The study recommends well-articulated national ideologies without which the media will have no foundation for their individual missions that would help reinvent the lost nationalistic zeal.