With over four hundred (400) ethnic groups, Nigeria since independence has remained a multi-ethnic nation state, which has been grappling and trying to cope with the problem of ethnicity on one hand and the problem of ethno-religious conflicts on the other. This is because over the years the phenomenona of ethnicity and religious intolerance have led to incessant recurrence of ethnic and religious motivated conflicts, which have birthed many ethnic militias like the OPC (o’dua people congress), the Bakassi boys, Niger-delta Avengers, Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) etc with the emergence of these militias and the deep divides between the ethnic groups, religious intolerance has become more violent and bloody with more devastating results using the ethnic militias as the executors of ethno-religious agenda. The article centers on violent ethnic crisis in Wukari, the article argues strongly for the Media to fully grasp the contentious issues that fuel crisis and report accordingly without sensationalism. The article goes ahead and recommend investigative journalism and more so peace Journalism, so that facts could be separated from fictions and violent language can be mitigated with conciliatory or tolerant language. 

Keywords: Conflict Resolution, Crisis Management, Ethnic Supremacy, Media Representation, Mutual Tolerance.