INFLUENCE OF TELEVISION PROGRAMMES ON AUDIENCE INTRODUCTION Television broadcasting is a medium of communication that has the ability of informing, educating, persuading, entertaining and mobilizing its audience irrespective of how culture and religion or ethics. Television broadcasting combines both visuals and sound which makes it one of the most important means of communication. According to Websters Dictionary, Television was defined as a system of transmitting visual images and sound that are reported on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programmes for the interest of the public or audience. According to World Wide Web (www.ask.com) Television can be defined as the broadcasting of a still or moving image via radiowaves to receives that project a view of the image on a picture tube. In recent time television broadcasting has been revolutionalized in Nigeria, virtually every state of the federation has a television station and some two or more. This revolution has led to competi...

IMPACT OF TERTIARY EDUCATION TRUSTFUND ON LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT FROM 2010 – 2017 (INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES, MANDO - KADUNA). CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The Impact of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), on Library Resource of the Institute of Water Resources, Mando from 2010 -2017 is to ascertain how TETFUND support tertiary institution. From 1980’s and beyond, the decay of all tiers of education was monumental. Facilities had almost collapsed teachers and lecturer’s morale was at its lowest. Enabling environment for conducive teaching and learning was absent. The administration of President, Ibrahim Babangida being mindful of the reality of the situation took measures to arrest the rot. Odekunleas cited in Clementina(2018), Education is widely accepted as a major instrument for promoting socio-economic, political andcultural development in Nigeria. Higher institutions educate future leaders and develop the high-level technical capacities that underpi...