NEWS PAPER READING CULTURE AMONG NIGERIA STUDENTS (A CASE STUDY OF CROWN POLYTHECNIC ODO, ADO-EKITI, EKITI STATE).
Abstract
The study investigates Newspaper Reading culture among Nigerian Students with a case study of crown Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti. Survey research designs was adopted for the study and the population consisted of students who always visit the Crown Polytechnic Library to read news papers. Simple random sampling techniques was employed to select a sample size of 250 respondent and questionnaire was the major instrument used for data collection. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics consisting of tables of frequency and percentage the findings revealed that news papers were available in the polytechnic library, majority of the respondents acknowledged that, newspapers were available in the polytechnic library, majority of the respondents acknowledgement that punch and the Nation are the only newspapers collected by the crown polytechnic library. It was also discovered that a great number of the respondents read newspaper on daily basis while others read once in a week, twice in a week, once a months etc. lack of current information Non availability of currents news paper and obsolete News papers were some of the challenges encountered by students and recommendations were therefore put forward.
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