Ayotunde, a Lagos-based merchant dealing in cars, owns three plots of land in Ikorodu. The 43-year-old trader approaches his bank for a N10 million loan to expand his business but his request is rejected. The bank will not help him because the landed-asset tendered as collateral lacks verifiable own
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