Eradicating Sexual Assault in Nigerian University System: The Role of Investigative Journalism

Debates on the trends, causes, implications and appropriate measures to control sexual assault in our university system are highly speculative. This is because most literature is based on intuitive narrations. Robust study on the use of investigative journalism in eradicating sexual assault in our university education is certainly lacking. This paper x-rays the need to adopt investigative journalism in eradicating sexual assault in our university system. The theoretical framework is development media theory propounded by Dennis Mc Quail (1987). Data were secondarily sourced through newspaper publications, journal articles, text books , magazines and publications. The paper recommends the need for university administrators to strengthen and continuously support investigative journalism in eradicating sexual assault and other social vices in our university system. Also, university administrators should make the elimination of sexual assault a top priority by empowering lecturers to take a stand against inappropriate name-calling and sexual comments.

Keywords: Eradicating, Investigative journalism, Role, Sexual assault, University system.