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By Agu Ikenna Protesting students of Benue State University, Makurdi Benue State University on Friday postponed its planned session examination over students’ protest. Newsmen report that the leadership of the students’ union, barricaded the entrance gate to the institution as early as 6a.m to protest management’s directive of `no fees, no examination for any student’. Some of the students, who carried placards with various inscriptions, told newsmen that the state-owned institution’s decision was not justifiable, since the state government also owed their parents salary arrears and allowances. Some of the placards had inscriptions like: “What will our parents use for payment of school fees, when salaries of over a year are not paid?” Some of the students, who spoke with newsmen, called for the immediate intervention of the state governor on the issue. According to them, the state government’s inaction had left our parents in terrible financial situation. Charity Akor told n...

Agu, Ikenna E. BSU/SS/COM/PHD/16/7340 COM 901: Seminar in Global Media and Cultural Domination Department of Mass Communication Benue State University, Makurdi ikennasports@yahoo.com 08036053643 Abstract The paper examined the Contra-flow of global media industries, mainly television and film, as despite the exponential growth of the Internet in the last decade; it was being used only by about 15 per cent of the world’s population in 2015, while television and film had a much larger audience base. This paper widened the discussion by articulating in tabular form the export of media goods by selected   non-Western countries, dominant flows, contra-flows, the advent of "Contra-flow" in global news etc.Agenda setting theory was used to underline this paper. While celebrating the global circulation of media products from a wider range of hubs of creative and cultural industries, the paper emphasized the disparities in the volume and economic value of ...