@article{Leton_2024, title={Evaluation of the Use of Online Media for Green Reporting of the Environmental Clean-Up Project in Ogoni Land by Key Stakeholders (2019-2023) }, volume={2}, url={https://www.ijssar.com/paper/evaluation-of-the-use-of-online-media-for-green-reporting-of-the-environmental-clean-up-project-in-ogoni-land-by-key}, abstractNote={<strong>Background:</strong> Environmental pollution resulting from oil spill has been a major problem in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigerian particularly in the Ogoni-land. The government and the oil companies have been carrying out environmental clean-up in the area. Amidst the on-going environmental clean-up in Ogoni-land, the media has been abuzz with discourses from stakeholders of the Ogoni clean-up project. These reports are necessary to keep the people informed and updated on the clean-up project. However, stakeholder communication is sometimes fraught with contention and disagreement among the different stakeholder groups which can distort audience perception of the activities of the Ogoni clean-up project.
<br/><strong>Objective:</strong> The study investigated green reporting of the environmental clean-up by stakeholders in the Ogoni clean-up project between 2019 and 2023.
<br/><strong>Method:</strong> Adopting a qualitative content analysis, 20 extensive reports on the Ogoni clean-up project were purposively selected, with ten each from YouTube and the website of organisations that report on the Ogoni clean-up project. Discourse analysis was used to analyse the data gathered.
Results: The green reporting themes from stakeholder reports on the Ogoni clean-up project are pollution; environmental remediation and restoration; accountability and environmental sustainability; health and livelihood; environmental advocacy; and environmental awareness and risk communication.
<br/><strong>Conclusion:</strong> There is a lot of green reporting carried out by the primary, secondary and tertiary stakeholders of the Ogoni clean-up project. This communication is done in the interest of the locals to ensure a long-term sustainable Ogoni environment. 
<br/><strong>Unique Contribution:</strong> This study offers insight into the intricacies of environmental communication, and can be relevant in policy making for environmental communication and environmental management with the aim of achieving long-term environmental sustainability.
<br/><strong>Key Recommendation:</strong> Stakeholders of the Ogoni clean-up project should incorporate other important areas of interest to the people and environmental sustainability in their public reports such as environmental risk communication, health communication/programmes, participatory engagement, environmental awareness creation, etc.
}, number={4}, journal={International Journal of Sub-Saharan African Research}, author={Leton Cynthia Kuru, & Barigbon Gbara Nsereka,}, year={2024}, month={Dec.}, pages={26–53}}