GLOBALISATION AND COMMUNICATION IN NIGERIA THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNET SERVICES AND MOBILE TELEPHONE

Abstract

The emergence of a global regime as globalisation now determines the tempo of the contemporary world, manifesting in the integration of markets, finance and technology in a way that shrinks the world, and propelled by rapid and unrestrained communication. This global regime creates both possibilities and problems. It is uniting the world and generating enormous new levels of wealth on the one hand, and greater inequalities on the other. In this relationship, African countries, particularly Nigeria has been massively exploited by the global north. The nature and magnitude of this exploitation which deserves serious attention shall be analysed using the theory of post-neo-dependency as our theoretical framework of analysis. This paper, therefore, seeks to interrogate the role of computers and mobile telephones in subsidizing the lives of foreign countries, particularly, the global west. The central problematique of this paper is to ascertain how global communication serve as a pipeline for siphoning financial resources out of Nigeria. Again, the nature and magnitude of exploitation of Nigeria by the global north through the use of computers and mobile telephones will be interrogated. This paper concludes that only a plausible policy that will eliminate repatriation of profits by foreign investors is the panacea for economic recovery in Nigeria.