“…However, recently due to the impact of globalisation and ease of digital access to information, African rural dwellers now also look up to the broadcast media for information at critical times such as COVID-19 and the health crisis period (Ngonso & Chuckwu, 2021;Egielewa, 2022). Other than the health disaster period, a typical African may seek information Journal of Ethics in Higher Education 2(2023) through the mass media (Egielewa et al, 2023). However, information in the mass media particularly, television may only reinforce the pre-existing belief of an African that has been rooted in interpersonal communication through various inter-group interactions and influence (Uchenunu & Ngonso, 2021).…”