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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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[Premium Times] The NCDC says new COVID-19 infections were reported from 14 states and the FCT in the last 24 hours.

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[Daily Trust] Hundreds of the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State have been released a moment ago, credible government sources told Daily Trust.

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, and his special assistant on special needs and equal opportunities, Abdulsalam Idowu Kamaldeen, are among the nominees to be honoured with Naija Autistic and Disability Awards, NADA, as part of activities marking this year’s international day of people living with disabilities, IDPD on Thursday. Other […]

The post Hon. Gbajabiamila, Aide, Pacelli School, others to receive Awards to mark IDPD appeared first on African Voice Newspaper.

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[Daily Trust] The Federal Government of Nigeria has signed an Investment Protection Agreement (IPA) with Morocco and Singapore to raise investing confidence.

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[New Times] The launch of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), a continental showpiece that is Africa's first ever professional league was expected to be one of the highlights of 2020, but it was postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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[This Day] Abuja -- Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged the federal government to act fast and now to prevent Nigerians from recording avoidable casualties as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hits the world.

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[World Bank] Washington -- Today, the World Bank has discussed the next five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Nigeria with a $1.5-billion financing package to support a resilient post-COVID-19 recovery and help the government achieve its goal of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030.

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[This Day] The government of Estonia has invited the Chairman of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria and Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu, as one of the panelists in an online cross-continental hackathon titled: \"EU-Africa: The Post Crisis Journey.\"

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[Africa Renewal] The Secretary-General welcomes the release on 17 December of some of the children who were abducted from a secondary school in Katsina State, Nigeria, on 11 December.

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