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ABSTRACT
The role plaid by the media in every society is undeniable and essential, especially in their advocacy for better living condition of the people in a society. Thus, this research study seeks to assess the extent of the press coverage of the passage of the National Minimum Wage Act in Nigeria: a study of The Vanguard, The Punch, and The Guardian newspapers. This study also sought to find out the level of coverage and treatment given to the passage of the National Minimum Wage Act in Nigeria by the press, examining the frequency of coverage, level of prominence, format (genre) of reportage as well as the magnitude of space allotted to issues on the passage of the National Minimum Wage. Anchored on the Social Responsibility Theory, the study adopted content analysis as the research design, while the population of the study covered a period of six (6) months, from January to June 2019, which provided a total of 230editions studied from the three (3) selected newspapers. Findings from this study reveals that the newspapers did not give enough coverage to the issue of minimum wage and that issues on the National Minimum Wage were not given the desirable prominence by the newspapers studied. The study further reveals that the reports on National Minimum Wage were not given a considerable elaborate analysis by the three newspapers, while issues related to the passage of the National Minimum Wage reported in the newspapers were deeply analyzed by the three selected newspapers. Based on the findings the researcher recommends that the news paper should be more committed to carrying out their responsibilities as the watchdog of the society and come up with policies capable of changing the lives of the Nigerian workers because minimum wage for the workers remains one of the major factors in determining the quality of life in a country.
