Exposition of Converging 9Mobile MMS Security News Reports as Part of Sustainable Development Goal-11

Abstract

There has been an emergence of converging mobile-telecommunications news services in Nigeria. By 2018, 9Mobile, one the countries prominent mobile-telecommunication companies had also taken due advantage of digital technologies to offer converging news services. Meanwhile, there have been serious and increasing security challenges and disturbances in the country. Therefore, this content analysis research -which is theoretically framed by the Proximate Locations and New Media theories, explores how relative security reports from randomly selected prominent Nigerian national dailies had been embedded to converge with equivalent 9Mobile MMS [Multi-Media Service] news. As far as social protection and inclusion is considered vital for Nigeria’s national cohesion and development, this content analysis-based research article majorly unveils the extent to which emerging digital technological telecommunication news services in Nigeria had given due regard to security issues the country -as relative part of the fulfilment of Sustainable Development Goal-11. As part of the findings, this research exposes the value of digital news convergence correlation analysis amidst informed understanding of proximate news locations and suggests that as digital mobile technologies continue to penetrate and influence contemporary information aggregations, proper delineation of security information nuances is encouraged.