Dr, Department of Public Administration, Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria
Review Article
Social Media and its Impact on Governance Building in Africa: The Nigeria Scenario
Author(s): Abubakar S Yushau Alfakoro*, Yahaya Aliyu Ismaila and Abdul Hadi Ayodeji
Overtime, the social media as contributed to the development of citizen’s participation in government, as it has the potentials to create
public awareness and interactions between people in a simple form and different means. Majority of citizens are users of one form of
social media or the other in which they interact on daily basis and Nigeria have been experiencing bad leadership, corruption, and
economic problems due to bad governance without citizen’s consensus and consent. The objective of this paper is to access the role of
social media on consensus and consent building in governance as citizen’s full flagged participation will guarantee accountability,
transparency and responsiveness in government. The paper made use of secondary sources of data. The paper recommends that free
access to information, responsible journalism and citizen’s .. Read More»
DOI:
10.37421/2223-5833.2021.11.416