THE SYNTHESIS/CUMULATIVE REPORT ON THE MONITORING OF OIL & GAS REPORTAGE IN SIX NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS FOR THE PERIOD MARCH TO AUGUST 2015 Raji, Rasaki Section I 1.0. General introduction This report covers the cumulative analysis of outcomes from the monitoring of the reporting of the oil and gas sector by six newspapers over a six-month period from March to August 2015. The newspapers monitored are: The Guardian, Vanguard, ThisDay, Business Day, The Punch, and Daily Trust. The monitoring exercise was embarked upon by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria, with the funding support of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) Section II 2.0. Methodology The newspapers were purposively selected being nationally published and circulated newspapers with robust coverage of the oil and gas sector. All the selected newspapers have specialized pages on whi...