Romancing the gun
Subtitle: the press as promoter of military rule
By: Ndaeyo Uko.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Press -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century; Government and the press -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The source of the power; title: 1. Word of man, word of God; title: 2. Press bashing, colonial style; title: 3. The press under colonialism? A case study of Nigeria and Australia; title: pt. 2. Victim of democracy; title: 4. First republic - colonial lessons; title: 5. Second republic - flogging the press; title: pt. 3. Sleeping with the enemy; title: 6. A peculiar press-military relationship; title: 7. The media and the baby dictators - the Ironsi/Gowon/Murtala Obasanjo; title: 8. The media and the Medusa - the Buhari Regime; title: 9. Evil genius - the Babangida years; title: 10. The end of the affair - the Abacha years; title: 11. Reporting (to) the military - journalists as coup plotters; title: pt. 4. The press: the people's friend or foe?; title: 12. Better life under military rule; title: 13. The Devil's advocate.