PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF NOLLYWOOD MOVIES ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AMONG RESIDENTS OF OWERRI MUNICIPAL

The study examines how Nollywood films affect domestic violence among Owerri Municipal Council residents. Thestudy's goals were to determine the degree to which Owerri Municipal residents were exposed to domestic violencein Nollywood films, how they felt about the way domestic violence was portrayed in these films, and howNollywood films affected domestic violence among Owerri residents. The study's population consisted of the180,540 estimated residents of Owerri Municipality, and a survey research design approach was employed. Thesample size for this study was determined to be 384 Owerri Municipal inhabitants using the Wimmer and Dominickonline calculator. 372 of the 384 valid copies of the questionnaire that were given to respondents were used in theanalysis. For ease of understanding, frequency distribution and percentage were used to show and analyse the datacollected from the questionnaire copies. The study's conclusions showed that Owerri municipal residents wereexposed to a lot of domestic violence content, that respondents thought Nollywood films' depictions of domesticviolence against women were bothersome and something to avoid, and that these depictions influenced women'saggressive behaviour. Based on the results, the study suggests that the Advertising Regulatory Commission ofNigeria regulate the content of Nollywood films to lessen the depiction of men as oppressors, that a domesticviolence court series television program be established in Nigeria, similar to the "All Rise" television series inAmerica, to address domestic violence issues on a life television broadcast, and that laws be put in place by thegovernment to lessen domestic violence against men.