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Dapo Olorunyomi Quotes

born 1957 Nigeria

Oyedapo Oyekunle "Dapo" Olorunyomi OON (born 8 November 1957) is a Nigerian journalist, co-founder, CEO, and publisher of Premium Times, and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID).

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"Journalists should seek truth and report. Be accountable to readers and dedicated to public discourse."

Democracy building will be almost impossible without good journalism.

"There's no democracy when there is no citizenry."

One of the key roles is the institutions that promote accountability, because indeed, when you can't ensure accountability, then that means democracy itself is endangered.

Without CPJ, I believe I would be dead or in prison.

"As the saying goes, yesterday is a story gone, tomorrow can still be written in gold."

"Misinformation... can systematically feed the wrong information to voters, thereby compromising the integrity of the ballot. It can foment strife and conflict and even cause wide scale fatalities."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dapo Olorunyomi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.