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- ↑ "Celebrating Comfort Omoge: The wife of a king who took traditional Ikale music global". Nigerian Entertainment Today. 2020-03-10. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
- ↑ Idonije, Benson (September 1999). "The Great Highlife Series: Comfort Omoge… The Queen of Asiko".
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