This study examined how rape cases in Nigeria were framed and depicted in the Print media. The objectives are to establish the frequency of rape stories appearing in Nigerian Dailies, to identify the sources of and from which rape cases that are reported, and to identify the dominant frame that are published there. Four research questions were developed to serve as a study director based on the investigation's goals. The researcher chose Agenda Setting Theory as the best theoretical foundation for this investigation. The research design, content analysis, was chosen. In the study, content analysis of the Daily Sun, Guardian, and Vanguard was done to examine how rape cases are framed and portrayed in the media, particularly the print media. The study discovered that the primary framing of rape tales in newspapers was innocence, which presented rape victims as not guilty of the crime, as opposed to re-victimisation, which portrayed victims as accountable for the deed. The study suggests that the print media cover and report on occurrences of rape more frequently to raise the necessary awareness to stop the nasty trend.
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