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Breaking: FCMB founder, Subomi Balogun, is dead

May 19, 2023May 19, 2023 - by Hakeem, Adegbenro, Abeokuta
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The founder of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Otunba Michael Subomi Balogun, has passed on.

Balogun, the Olori Omo-Oba of Ijebu-land, reportedly died in a London hospital, on Friday May 19, 2023, aged 89.

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