Social Media Comments on Nigeria’s NDLEA War against Drug Abuse and Propensity to Reduce Drug Peddling
| dc.contributor.author | Talabi, Felix | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-17T12:08:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-17T12:08:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, terrorism, drug misuse and drug peddling are currently regarded as the three worst societal issues in the world (UNODC, 2015). In UNODC's annual National Survey report released in 2018, 14.3 million persons aged 15 to 64 were said to have taken drugs in 2017. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Nigeria has frequently updated the public on its successes in the war against drug abuse in the nation. It is necessary to find out the views of the masses on the war against drug misuse. Adopting the discourse analysis method, the following findings were discovered after analysing the comments of Facebook users on the war against drug abuse and the propensity of those comments to end drug peddling in Nigeria. Firstly, Nigerians on Facebook support and commend the NDLEA's strategies for reducing the country's epidemic of drug abuse. Second, Nigerians expect that the NDLEA's efforts to curtail drug trafficking and abuse in the nation will be aided by their Facebook remarks. The study concluded by advocating the need for social media control of explicit content that shows the usage of hard drugs. The study thus recommended that this research should be replicated using other social media platforms like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok among others with NDLEA’s war against drug abuse as its main focus. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | 10.31920/2516-2713/2023/6n2a5 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.run.edu.ng/handle/123456789/4170 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Journal of African films and Diaspora Studies (JAFDIS) | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. 6; No. 2 | |
| dc.title | Social Media Comments on Nigeria’s NDLEA War against Drug Abuse and Propensity to Reduce Drug Peddling | |
| dc.type | Article |