Revisão do Jornal Árabe de Negócios e Gestão

Social Media and its Impact on Governance Building in Africa: The Nigeria Scenario

Abstract

Abubakar S Yushau Alfakoro, Yahaya Aliyu Ismaila and Abdul Hadi Ayodej

Overtime, the social media as contributed to the development of citizen’s participation in government, as it has the potentials to create public awareness and interactions between people in a simple form and different means. Majority of citizens are users of one form of social media or the other in which they interact on daily basis and Nigeria have been experiencing bad leadership, corruption, and economic problems due to bad governance without citizen’s consensus and consent. The objective of this paper is to access the role of social media on consensus and consent building in governance as citizen’s full flagged participation will guarantee accountability, transparency and responsiveness in government. The paper made use of secondary sources of data. The paper recommends that free access to information, responsible journalism and citizen’s participation will aid in governance building.