There is increased mobile telecommunications penetration across Nigeria. One of the realities connected to such penetration is the news-text services offered by the country’s 9Mobile mobile telecommunications company. This content analysis and covert non-participant observation research examined news entrepreneurial and citizen journalism potentials of the service. Findings show that news SMS service is encouraging, but issues such as delayed delivery and incomplete replications concurrently hamper entrepreneurial and citizen journalism benefits. The degree of diversity of 9Mobile news SMS contents is also poor. Nevertheless, there was significant use of prominent news stories – as derived from the hardcopies of the sourcing national newspapers. The research notes the need for news SMS copyright and plagiarism checks alongside other professional standards. Overall, it is pertinent to reiterate that irrespective of shortcomings, convergent news deliveries of 9Mobile SMS-MoreNews retain significant potentials for entrepreneurship and citizen journalism.

Due to smartphones’ high use and penetration, it has become pertinent to interrogate addiction issues concerning inbuilt user control mechanisms and relative use for academic enhancement among university students. Based on the postulations of the uses and the gratification theory and utilitarian theory of ethics, it has been framed that smartphones are not the key issue but how smartphones are used. The study adopted a survey research design using a questionnaire instrument to collect data from 250 students at a university in Lagos, Nigeria. The findings revealed that smart attachment and addiction are extremely high among the students. However, user controls are not just a matter of default inbuilt ethical control mechanisms, but also deliberately habitual towards academically relevant outcomes. It was also revealed that how one uses smartphones and what one uses smartphones for, are more critical to academic performance than understanding and satisfaction with the inherent inbuilt control mechanism. In essence, good management of smartphone attachment or addiction issues is more of a matter of habit than it is about inherent ethical smartphone controls. The study, therefore, concluded that manufacturers must take active measures to align smartphone ethical inherent controls with emerging artificial intelligence. Such synergy would suffice to orient users toward improvement. Also, active smartphone user philosophy for self-benefitting purposes is vital. In other words, both manufacturers and users of smartphones have a role in smartphone attachment–addiction management–not just ethical inherent control mechanisms.

Human trafficking is a phenomenon that has attracted global attention. In Africa, it has existed even before the slave trade between Africans and Europeans, when people were trafficked for mainly economic and cultural reasons. The prevalence of human trafficking today, especially in developing countries, and the spate of ignorance among rural dwellers make it a complex issue requiring a multi-stakeholder approach for resolution. This chapter hypothesises that the more aware families are of human trafficking and its forms of manifestation, the less the likelihood of its occurrence. It was revealed that the media had not fulfilled its social responsibility in raising awareness about human trafficking, hence the continued involvement of people in this act. Further, it was discovered that most media professionals have little or no knowledge of the dimensions of human trafficking. Based on the findings, the chapter recommends that Nigerian media need to embark on effective public sensitisation in deconstructing human trafficking and its attendant consequences in Nigerian society.

It is unarguably true that one of the social institutions from which children need protection is the media. This is because some media content violates and poses a harmful influence on their development. The media has been accused of being weak in protecting the rights of Nigerian children from the standpoint of the content it disseminates. This chapter focuses on the power of the media to advocate for the child's rights and shape the childhood process through its content. The study discovered that media outlets are not predisposed to reporting issues regarding child rights but rather place more attention on entertainment programmes that attract big sponsors. The study recommends that media content should focus on promoting child rights issues in Nigeria.