AKANNI MUSIBAU TUNDE

Journalism

At the Journalism department office

Appointment on Visitation important

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (MEDIA AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION STUDIES)	INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN NIGERIA	2015

State Actors and the Indispensability of Domestication of Multi-track Diplomacy in the Age of Media Abundance

According to Cable, an online news website report of Dec 16 2021, SB Morgen Intelligence reported that 642 personnel of the Nigerian military and 322 officers of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, were killed in combatant attacks within one year. The concern of the Buhari government with ceaseless bloodletting and kidnapping has been accompanied in the recent time by its meticulous attention to media activities apparently on account of their unprecedentedly voluminous output.The government has subsequently gone ahead with frantic efforts to rework laws governing broadcasting.Indeed, it banned Twitter but other social media, perhaps more popular platforms, have remained free.Incidentally, conflict resolution experts reckon most strongly with the importance of media and communications especially via the concept of multi-track diplomacy.Statement of ProblemMedia and conflict scholars Akanni, Jimoh,Olayoku 2019, have repeatedly submitted that the media have rather given enhanced visibility to severity of conflicts and other forms of adversity in the country. The same scholars have however done well to recommend the application of the knowledge of conflict-sensitive journalism to contemporary reporters. But what happens to irregular reporters on assorted social media ceaselessly dispensing information, including gory images to the world in this age of media abundance? Boczkowski,2021;Akanni, 2021 .

AKANNI TUNDE is a Associate Professor / Reader at the Department of Journalism

AKANNI has a Ph.D in MEDIA AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION STUDIES from INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN NIGERIA