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- ↑ "commissioner for local government and chieftaincy affairs briefs press on ministrys activities in the last one year". encomium.ng. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ↑ "Tension as chieftaincy row brews in Lagos community". Vanguard News. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
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