This paper examines the role or the impact of Nigerian Press on shaping the country’s political structure period of study 1999-2004.
A general study of Nigeria is because it happens to be the period when we witness a transition to civilian rule. Many library materials constituted the sample source and literature review. Dates were also collected through extensive reading of information material on the government administrative policy.
There findings showed that by the period of 1999, government activities in respect to the policy of administration supposed to have passed the stages of mobilization to that of execution, and that newspaper will not only covered those activities by use of newstones but also comment on the policy formulation and application through the use of feature articles and editorials. The newspaper also identifies problems that should be solved for the government programmes to succeed.

COVER PAGE                                I
TITLE PAGE                                II
CERTIFICATION                                III
DEDICATION                                IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                            V
ABSTRACT                                    VI
TABLE OF CONTENTS                            VII
LIST OF TABLES

CHAPTER ONE
1.0    INTRODUCTION                            
1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY                
1.2    STATEMENT OF RESEARCH PROBLEMS            
1.3    OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY                    
1.4    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY                
1.5    RESEARCH QUESTIONS                    
1.6    RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS                    
1.7    LIMITATION OF THE STUDY                    
1.8    ASSUMPTIONS                            

CHAPTER TWO        
    LITERATURE REVIEW                        
2.0    POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT11
2.1    PRESS VOICE OF THE VOICELESS                
2.2    BANNING NEWSPAPERS                    
2.3    HOW FREE IS THE NIGERIA PRESS            
2.4    ROLE OF THE PRESS IN THE SOCIETY            
2.5    CHALLENGING OF PRESS MAN                
2.6    PRESS VIEW ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA           
2.7    PRESS AND POWER IN NIGERIA POLITICS        
2.8    THE PERIOD OF MUTALA/OBASANJO MILITARY REGIME         
2.9    SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW            

CHAPTER THREE    
    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY                    
3.0    RESEARCH DESIGN                        
3.1    RESEARCH SAMPLE AND PROCEDURE            
3.2    MEASURING INSTRUMENTS                    
3.3    DATA COLLECTION                        
3.4    DATA ANALYSIS                            
3.5    EXPECTED RESULT                        

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0    DATA PRESENTATION AND RESULTS            
4.1    SUMMARY OF RESULT                        
4.2    DISCUSSION                            

CHAPTER FIVE
5.0    SUMMARY                                
5.1    RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER STUDY         
REFERENCE                            
APPENDIX                                




LIST OF TABLES
TABLE I    INFORMATION MATERIAL USED
TABLE II    AGGREGATE INFORMATION MATERIAL USED
TABLE III    NEWS COVERAGE OF SPECIFIC GOVERNMENT
TABLE IV    FEATURE COVERAGE OF SPECIFIC GOVERNMENT POLICY ISSUES
TABLE V    EDITORIAL COMMENTS ON SPECIFIC GOVERNMENT POLICY ISSUES.