International Journal of Sub-Saharan African Research (IJSSAR)

Background: Development of viable infrastructure is one of the essential ingredients for capacity development in journalism education and training in Nigeria. Journalism training has been in practice before they were training institutions to produce journalist. However, evolution and development of infrastructure is inherently faced with diverse constraints which are often shaped and molded by historical peculiarities, political setting, economic space and even environmental factors.
Objective: This study examined infrastructure constraints and capacity development journalism Education in Nigeria.
Method: Being a position paper, the researcher depended solely on secondary sources of data to arrive at a conclusion. The researcher consulted empirical and theoretical studies from other researchers and scholars in the field of infrastructure, constraints, journalism education and other works related to the topic. Data and conclusions reached were derived from extensive consultations of textbooks, journals, newspapers, magazines and other online materials. This helped the researcher to arrive at the conclusions here.
Result: The paper observed that there has been so many scholarly works done on journalism. It has been theorized, researched, studied and criticized worldwide by people coming from a wide variety of disciplines. In addition, it also observed that those who contribute occasional articles to newspapers or electronic media are not journalist, at best, they are mere writers noting that Journalism training is effective, only when there is proper infrastructure in place as they both go hand in hand. It also observed that the vital issues affecting journalism training in Nigeria are finance, corruption, politicization of infrastructure projects and international requirement of projects.
Conclusion: This study concludes that it is crucial to mention that infrastructure challenges has affected journalism training to a large extent in Nigeria. Despite these challenges, there are various solutions that can be implemented on to improve journalism training in Nigeria.
Unique Contribution: The study is significant to journalist, incoming journalist, policy makers and researchers.
Key Recommendation: The study recommended that despite these constraints, there are various solutions that can be implemented to improve journalism training in Nigeria.