Abstract
The study examined
television as an instrument of Educational Advancement in Kogi
State using Kogi State
Polytechnic, Lokoja as a case study. Mass media especially television has been
major agent of socialization and education in society through some educational
programmes like Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Brain Test, Quiz T.V, Debate and
many more apart from paying attention to government and non governmental
educational organization like Universal basic Education. Today education is not
limited within teacher and taught without social environment and mass media is
one such potent force in the social environment of education. Mass media prove
that education is really comprehensive not confined within four walls of the classroom
really, television as the educational medium for the mass and mass education.
However, for the purpose of this study survey research method was employed with
the use of questionnaire
