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onChief Aino met Gabriel, her late husband, in California in her school days and in 1973 they came to Nigeria. “he (her husband) felt he didn’t want to live in another man’s country again. So he wanted to come home. So he came and was promised a job by the Public Service Commission but that job was not up to his expectation. So he worked as a teacher, he did some work with the government trying to find his feet. His dream was to set up a shop where he could sell state-of-the-art studio equipment,” she recalls. i3

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