| Social Media | Newspapers | |||||||||||||
| Blogs | Nairaland | Tweet | | Punch | Guardian | Tribune | ||||||||
| N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | |
| Injustice | 28 | 17.2 | 23 | 6.6 | 89 | 9.6 | 6 | 3.7 | 36 | 7.2 | 24 | 3.8 | 18 | 3.8 |
| Sympathy | 22 | 13.5 | 13 | 3.7 | 93 | 10.0 | 10 | 6.1 | 48 | 9.7 | 40 | 6.3 | 29 | 6.1 |
| Legitimizing | 19 | 11.7 | 111 | 32.0 | 383 | 41.2 | 99 | 60.7 | 213 | 42.9 | 200 | 31.4 | 184 | 38.8 |
| Delegitimizing | 8 | 4.9 | 47 | 13.5 | 28 | 3.0 | 15 | 9.2 | 52 | 10.5 | 111 | 17.4 | 95 | 20.0 |
| Accountability | 28 | 17.2 | 30 | 8.6 | 72 | 7.8 | 15 | 9.2 | 46 | 9.3 | 86 | 13.5 | 33 | 7.0 |
| Spectacle | 8 | 4.9 | 90 | 25.9 | 156 | 16.8 | 6 | 3.7 | 55 | 11.1 | 62 | 9.7 | 57 | 12.0 |
| Contextual | 13 | 8.0 | 10 | 2.9 | 37 | 4.0 | 2 | 1.2 | 6 | 1.2 | 11 | 1.7 | 14 | 3.0 |
| Trust deficit | 26 | 16.0 | 19 | 5.5 | 45 | 4.8 | 6 | 3.7 | 32 | 6.4 | 81 | 12.7 | 35 | 7.4 |
| Imperialism | 11 | 6.7 | 4 | 1.2 | 26 | 2.8 | 4 | 2.5 | 9 | 1.8 | 22 | 3.5 | 9 | 1.9 |
| Total | 163 | 100.0 | 347 | 100.0 | 929 | 100.0 | 163 | 100.0 | 497 | 100.0 | 637 | 100.0 | 474 | 100.0 |