Maureen Chigbo

Maureen Chigbo , a PhD student at the Bingham University, Nigeria with focus on Communication for Development. She publishes Realnews, the pioneer Nigerian weekly investigative online news magazine. She was the first female general editor of Newswatch, a very influential weekly news magazine based in Lagos, Nigeria. Chigbo, the first female President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), has been a practicing journalism for more than 30 years. Her professional goal is to promote peace, justice and equal opportunity for all in Nigeria through effective investigative journalism that will expose any form of injustice and corruption and facilitate political, socio-economic development in the country.

Publications

Media and Contemporary African Society: Constructing an Environment Sensitive Communication Theory of Media Effect
Media and Contemporary African Society: Constructing an Environment Sensitive Communication Theory of Media Effect
Desmond Onyemechi Okocha, Maureen Chigbo. © 2024. 28 pages.
This research proposes a theory that ameliorates the deficiencies of agenda-setting, two-step flow, and third-person effect theories that are linear in explaining the influence...
Social Media Landscape in Africa: Mobilising and Engineering Youths for Socio-Political Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Social Media Landscape in Africa: Mobilising and Engineering Youths for Socio-Political Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Desmond Onyemechi Okocha, Maureen Chigbo. © 2024. 20 pages.
Since the Arab Spring pro-democracy riots and upheavals that shook the Middle East and North African authoritarian regimes in 2010 and 2011 and the EndSARS protest against police...