Abstract

The article presents a graphical profile of the access flow of television, Newspapers and magazines in the North East and Central Nigeria among the respondents in the study areas. The high access impact media can be recommended for conflict resolution information dissemination, the article identified television as the highest access impact media with 70% rating among other media. Responses on the role of media in general information dissemination in conflicts situations is very reasonable, notwithstanding, the private television stations were opined to be exhibiting tendencies of irresponsible reporting which could aggravate conflicts. Responses on mediation opinions, the respondents generally embrace dialogue and tolerance as their best option for mediation, while religious conflict was found to be the most occurring in all the study areas.

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