Educational Broadcasting in Nigeria: A Historical Development Perspective

Abstract

This work takes a look at the historical perspective of educational broadcasting in Nigeria. It traces the origin and development of the concept in Nigeria with the sole aim of evaluating its application to education. The work highlights
among others, the importance of educational broadcasting to teaching and learning as encouraging a greater understanding of the subject matter because its presentation is done in clear, straight forward and simple language. However, some problems that hinder the effective utilization of educational broadcasting
as observed include among others personal, power supply, equipment, storage, etc. Hence the work recommends among others others that in view of the usefulness of educational broadcasting, the Nigeria government both at the federal and
state levels should embrace educational broadcasting and fund it very well. The government should ensure that experts on educational broadcasting are trained and employed in schools so as to ensure that the problem of manpower in the field of educational broadcasting is solved.