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Impact Of Nta Enugu Entertainment Programmes On Youths In Enugu Metropolis
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According
to the International Labour Office Report on rural youths in Kenya
(1968), the definition of youths is restricted to the graduates from
primary schools, but additionally, young people in secondary schools,
training centers, villages polytechnics, youth centers and agricultural
institutions.
Gachuchi (1974) believes that youth falls between the
ages of 14 and 21. According to him, at 14 which is lower limit, youths
enter puberty and can reproduce and may have sexual experiences and
hence can be questioned on such issues. He further looked at 21 as the
upper limit because as he observed several countries recognize this age
as the age at which young people become responsible legally for their
actions without the endorsement of guardian or consent of parents.
Still
on the attempt to answer who a youth is, Gills (1974) recalled the
French and German words; “garcon†and “knable†both refer to a boy as
young as 6 and as old as 30 or 40. In both
countries, the term “boyâ€
still carries traces of this original double meaning of “servant†and
“boy†more especially in Irish peasants who call unmarried property less
men as boys regardless of their age.
Ifeanyichukwu Okonkwo (1990),
youths are usually a generational age grouping that share common ideas,
historical perspective, and are always influenced by a universal and
unique national and international experience. He said, “They are usually
those young men and women under the age of fifty as the case may be as
per consideration in each nationâ€.
The Nigerian Youth
A Nigerian
youth is characterized as a person who has a Nigerian father and can
trace his ancestry lineage to a village in Nigeria. He does not live in
isolation. If he does, he will die. In fact, if any other nation’s will
quickly die in isolation, the Nigerian youth will die even quicker
because he never likes to be alone. Our culture encourages him to be
with his father, mother, brothers and sisters.
A Nigerian youth is
characterized as a parson likely to show a trait of strong desire to
move up the social ladder of events. A Nigerian youth is a person who is
still worrying about what he would be in life tomorrow; he is mainly
concerned about mundane things of the world, how to change society as a
whole to suit his taste of life. But, he is still materially dependent
on his parents or other adults and to some extent need adult supervision
in his daily life activities.
A Nigerian youth often tends to
identify with several aspects of adult life though depending on his
temperament. Many of them tend to identify with adults of strong
characters who are disciplined, successful, mentally alert and
organized. Family stability as well as breast feeding is
very
important to a Nigerian youth, so as to prepare the youth to reason like
normal human being instead of thinking like an animal; especially the
untamed ones (Obasi, 2014).
1.2 Statement Of The Problem
Dayo
(1999) said that without feedback uncertainty persists; feedback
therefore enables the sender and receiver of the information- that is
the message, to feel more confident about the accuracy of the message.
It is speculated that most producers of television programmes do not
conduct research to measure the acceptability and effectiveness of their
programmes.
Since research is a systematic search for knowledge,
the primary aim of this study is to know the effect of entertainment
programmes (especially on the youths).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research work was aimed at analyzing impact of NTA Enugu entertainment programmes on youths in Enugu metropolis. The research method used was the survey method and questionnaire was the instrument. The findings from the questionnaire showed that entertainment programmes have negative influences on youths. After the findings, the researcher recommended that research should be carried out by television producers to measure the acceptability and effectiveness of their programme messages. ... Continue reading---
