Abstract: The main objective of this study was to identify the number of agricultural news covered in the lead story, front page headlines, Editorials and special write-ups of the Guardian, Thisday, Punch, Tide, Pioneer and New Waves Newspaper (2005 and 2006). The Guardian Thisday and Punch are private owned newspapers, while the Tide Pioneer and New waves are government owned newspapers. The newspapers were selected based on purposive sampling. Data for the study were collected from 438 newspaper publications of the 6 mentioned newspapers which were selected based on stratified random sampling. These data were analyzed using simple statistical tools such as percentages, tables and t-test. The result of this study showed that out of a total number of 438 lead stories identified only 3% were on agriculture; front page headlines identified were 1797 out of which 4% were on agriculture; 438 Editorials were identified, out of which 6% were on agriculture, special write up identified were 811 out of which 5% were on agriculture. Out of a total number of 160 agricultural news items identified in the 6 newspapers, 57% came from the government owned newspapers, while 43% came from the private-owned newspapers. Based on the result of this research, it is obvious that agricultural news was under published in the 6 newspapers examined. Necessary recommendations were made and these recommendations when put into practice will help to increase the number of agricultural news published by the newspapers thereby making newspaper an effective means of agricultural information dissemination.