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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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[Namibian] Former Ohangwena governor Usko Nghaamwa was involved in a car accident near Onhuno on Saturday.

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[Africa In Fact] Abuja Declaration: broken promises

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In the post-resurrection narrative of Luke 24:13-35, the Risen Christ, unknown to the two disciples journeying to the village of Emmaus, asks them, “What are you talking about as you walk along?” As the world and the Caribbean region grapple...

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Opinion - On Human Rights Day, Celebrating People Who Make the World Better

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[This Day] The Senate has began the process of amending the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act which was last amended 28 years ago, with the introduction of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Bill 2020, presently before the Upper Chamber.

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[Cameroon Tribune] The borders include, that with Benin, Cameroon and Niger, while the rest will be opened from December 31, 2020.

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[This Day] The House of Representatives at the plenary yesterday passed for second reading, a Bill seeking to grant autonomy to state judiciaries and also establish state judicial council.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Africans living in the diaspora have asked their governments to include them in the development agenda in the continent.

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Ethiopia's conflict in its Tigray region was kept off the African Union agenda at a special summit on silencing the guns in the continent this weekend.

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