Assessing the role of radio as a tool for public enlightenment towards achieving clean environment in Ilorin metropolis

The study assessed the role of radio as a tool for public enlightenment towards achieving a clean environment in the Ilorin metropolis. The study was anchored on Development Media Theory. A survey research method was adopted while a questionnaire was administered to elicit responses from respondents. Quota sampling techniques and accidental sampling techniques were selected Respondents. Equally, the data were analyzed in descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) with the aid of tables. Finding revealed that the majority of respondents (64%) listen to environmental sanitation programmes on radio often. Also, the majority of respondents (65%) agree that sanitation programmes on radio sensitize them about environmental cleaning. Many of respondents (54%) agree that sanitation campaigns on radio were effective. However, the majority of respondents (54%) want radio stations to double their effort towards enlightening people about environmental sanitation. It was recommended that a special desk to be called environmental and climate desk should be created and equipped with scientific and investigative journalists to maintain the desk for effective and efficient dissemination of information on sanitation, weather, climate and other environmental matters.