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Nike Art Gallery, Lagos

Nike Art Gallery is an art gallery in Lagos, Nigeria owned by Nike Davies-Okundaye. [1] [2] The gallery is one of the largest of its kind in West Africa, it boasts a collection of about 8,000 diverse artworks from various Nigerian artists like Chief Josephine Oboh Macleod. [3] [4] [5]

The gallery is housed in a five-storey building. [6] [7] [8]

The Nike Art Gallery have branches in Abuja, Oshogbo and Ogidi. [9] [10]

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Nike art gallery, Abuja

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