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Nigerian Daily Sketch is a Newspaper published in Ibadan, South West Nigeria with a circulation of 60,000 throughout the country. [1] [2]

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  1. "Nigerian daily sketch". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  2. Agency, United States Central Intelligence (1967). Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts.


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