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The Nigerian press is sharply polarised along geographical, ethnic and religious divides. In reporting religion the overbearing effect of the North-South divide easily impacts on the audience, creating a negative perception of the other – Christian-majority south versus the Muslim north. From the early 1980s up until this year, Nigeria repeatedly saw the eruption of religious conflicts between Muslims and Christians. The media are blamed for either instigating or amplifying the crisis or both. Using interviews and content review of reports, this paper seeks to examine issues like the use of newspapers in providing platform for promoting religious disharmony, manipulation of journalists reporting religion and how it impacts on fairness and objectivity and the process of creating stereotypes. Applying Sherif’s Superordinate Goals model, we explored the possibility of confronting the common problems for the collective interest of the entire nation. The paper proposes researching into and reporting on the positive sides of other faiths as a means of eradicating negative images and promoting religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence in Nigeria and beyond.

Reporting Religion and Enemy Images in the Nigerian Press