ABSTRACT
This study evaluate the perception and thinking of
people living in Lagos and cities on media coverage of boko-haram insurgency
that has since been a threat to national security and economy decline. The
study became essential because of the atmosphere in which Nigerians in the
cities operate especially the fear that boko-haram have extended its network to
Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Plateau and
Gombe states. The study used
survey method with 120 copies of questionnaires distributed to residents of
Lagos who were drawn using purposive sampling method in which 116 copies were
retrieved. Data collected were analysed and interpreted using frequency and
percentage method coupled with tables. It is the believe that the media can exist without undue
coverage of terrorists devastating activities in selling the papers, it is thus
advocated that less coverage should be given to terrorists activities which
often make people think that the world is no longer safe to live in. It was discovered that terrorism can be curbed with the
provision of adequate weapons for the military and keeping military information
as secret as possible because announcing military propose attack on terrorism
prepared terrorists to either lay ambush for military troops or change their
location.