Monday Afeakhare OKUGBE

The major hindrance causing underdevelopment in African countries, including Nigeria is corruption, and the role of the media in combating the menace is crucial. Therefore, this study examined, not only the manner in which the media stance shapes public knowledge and perception of graft, but how the problem of graft and anti-graft campaign within the Nigerian context is presented by the media writer. Data in the research work comprised headline news, top stories, news and opinion articles, which represent online version of the newspapers and news report journals. The publications represented the media presentation of graft and anti-graft campaign in Nigeria within the period of 2015 and 2022 the research covered. The publications which were retrieved through the Internet, provided accurate and unbiased information about corruption through grammatical expressions of their contents. They were collected and transcribed by using data analytic software – AntCon. Here, only the selected news relating to graft and anti-graft campaign were generated and translated into text for analysis, in terms of their relationship with the context. The three analytical procedures of description, interpretation and explanation of the data characteristic of language study were employed. And a blend of Peter R.R. White and Ken Hyland’s Stance and Appraisal
Theories was applied to explore the selected data