The Pragmatic Acts in Selected Nigerian Print Media Reports on the Abducted Chibok School Girls

A news report is a form of writer-reader negotiated meaning and contextual consideration language, structure, verbal codes. Thus, the study explored various pragmatic acts performed in reports on abducted Chibok girls Nigeria, especially construction or through Using Mey’s (2001) aspects as theoretical framework undergirded study, total thirteen (13) were purposively selected from three Nigerian newspapers (The Nation, Daily Trust & The Punch) analysed points acts, Searle’s (1969) classification Speech implicature presupposition. revealed that instantiated (practs) are pragmatically patterned to perform some informing, reporting audience, stating fact playing roles social change. also Dail Punch deploy their implicit practs castigating spate insecurity condemning ineptitude security agents towards rescuing girls. showed preponderant occurrences factive presupposition due assumptions being made about actual, real easily embedded report. concludes play role setting boundaries what talked about; shaping issues happening around nation exposing them readership.