Abstract
The stress-free access to, and the popularity of social media have brushed a motley of effects across the span of socio-economic, political and cultural concerns of the society. What has it done in the promotion of Civil and Political Rights in Nigeria during the 2019 Presidential election? This study investigates social media and the promotion of civil and political rights in Nigeria during the 2019 Presidential elections. It has descriptive research design, and adopted Structural-Functionalism in its content analysis of data collected from secondary sources such as the Internet, newspapers, textbooks, and journals. It argues that Social Media promoted civil and political rights in Nigeria during the 2019 Presidential election through its role as a tool for political communication as epitomized by its provision of platforms for electioneering, voter education, real-time updates during the polls, and promotion of transparency in the collation of figures from the polls. The study concluded accordingly, and recommended among other things that the gains accruing to human rights in Nigeria from social media should be reinforced via media literacy towards whetting the ability of the Nigerian citizens to access, analyse, evaluate, create and act on, social media information in an informed manner.