THE PERCEPTION OF UNIBEN STUDENTS

This study examined the perception of Uniben students on the role of social media in the fight against corruption in Nigeria. It analyses how the social media is functional as a tool that gives citizens of a geographical area the opportunity to act proactively against corruption by serving as a platform through which citizens could publicly identifyloopholes that exist in the system. The objective of this research includes to find out if the social media helps tackle corruption and how often issues of corruption have been exposed on social media. The researcher employed survey research methodology of which questionnaires were served to respondents to generate details for this research. With the data gathered for the research, findings revealed that issues of corruption are usually exposed by the social media with 55% of respondents who affirmed that they have seen issues of corruption being exposed online before. Also, 58% of the respondents supports that social media helps to tackle corruption while 59% of the total respodents agree to the fact that social media exposes ills and irregularities in government. With findings from this research work, it was concluded that social media is a viable tool for fight against corruption because it provides an opportunity for political participation and freedom of expression compared to the traditional media.