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The media must resist the temptation to become propaganda tools for government and political actors. Our job is to hold power to account, not to echo it.

— Tunji Sowande

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Bode, in the Sowande family, we cast no aspersion on Orisha. The problem of the post-colonial Christian generation is ignorance and silence

Nigerians have lost faith in government because promises are not kept and accountability is treated as an afterthought. Until we fix that, trust will remain in short supply.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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