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A Nigeria Railways Corporation official said the train departs Ibadan for Lagos at 8am daily with a return trip scheduled at 4pm.

The Lagos-Ibadan expressway is notorious for heavy trucks and traffic gridlocks that can stretch for several kilometres.

The Lagos-Ibadan line is the first part of a new 2,733km Lagos-Kano standard gauge line. The total cost of the project was valued at $11.117bn.

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Cook along with the bubbly celebrity chef by hosting your own virtual Dinner of Hope party in aid of the Starfish Greathearts Foundation.

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[Vanguard] A Bill to regulate Real Estate Activities in Lagos State and for other connected purposes has scaled second reading at the state House of Assembly.

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[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Tributes have been pouring in for  65-year-old academic and Amapiano star Olpha Selepe, popularly known as Gee Six Five.

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An explosion at a chemical treatment factory in Germiston has left one person dead and three others injured.

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A study conducted on 36 masks, from 12 KN95 brands, by a team of medical experts from the University of Cape Town found none of them met stipulated safety requirements.

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Independent candidates and the EFF were the biggest losers in Wednesday's by-elections, with the ANC emerging victorious and taking wards from the DA.

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(Reuters) - Bermuda and The Bahamas aren’t exactly big players in the oil-and-gas world.

The article How oil majors shift billions in profits to island tax havens appeared first on Stabroek News.

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A sneaky black mamba was found hiding inside a couch at a home in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, last month.

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