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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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[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Due to the political nature of the crisis,  the marginalization of women in decision-making roles in the countries analyzed \"locks in\" the suppression of women's voices, the report said.

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[Daily Trust] The National Population Commission (NPC) has said that Nigeria's population has been estimated at 206 million for 2020.

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The ‘Adorned by Chi’ manga celebrates the magic in all of us

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[Observer] Telecom giant MTN Uganda under its youth-engagement platform, MTN pulse was one of the sponsors of the first-ever virtual Buzz Teeniez Awards (BTAs) that happened over the weekend.

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An 18-year-old girl has been arrested in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos for allegedly faking her own kidnap to demand ransom from her family, police have said.

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[Daily Trust] The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and recall its certificate of registration given that it allegedly has no operational structures as required by law.

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[Vanguard] The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has denied that it reached an agreement with the federal government to suspend its ongoing strike on December 9, 2020.

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[Daily Trust] President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, for another five-year term.

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Activists supported by the government have taken to patrolling the main highway in Maiduguri in anti-jihadist efforts.

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[This Day] The Senate yesterday charged the executive arm of government to investigate the alleged annual revenue loss of $9billion to illegal mining and smuggling of gold in Nigeria.

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Press Release - A pioneer in soil research and Conservation Agriculture, Dr. Rattan Lal paved the way in one of FAO's key areas of work

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[Nairobi News] A section of Gor Mahia fans have promised to deliver 60,000 signatures for the BBI process if the government allows them to attend the return leg of the Caf Champions League preliminary round match against APR at the Nyayo National Stadium on Saturday.

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By LEKAN OYEKANMI and SUNDAY ALAMBA Associated Press KANKARA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's freed schoolboys have reunited with their joyful parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country's northwest. Relieved parents hugged their sons tightly on Saturday in Kankara, where more than 340 boys were abducted from the Government Science Secondary School on the night of Dec. 11. Other families met their sons in Ketare, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away. More boys went to their homes further away in Katsina state. 'When I heard our boys were freed, I […]

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[East African] Governments in Africa lose about $25 billion annually to corporate abuse by multinationals who transfer profits to offshore tax havens and to individuals engaging in tax evasion through undeclared assets.

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[Vanguard] The winner of the Nigeria Idol 2020/2021 season 6 talent hunt, is to go home with N50m worth of prizes and a recording contract.

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“For the kid scanning fairy tales for a hero with a face like theirs.

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WhatsApp was recently crowned as the most popular non-gaming mobile app with the highest revenue, according to analytics company Sensor Tower.

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[Premium Times] The chairperson lamented the risk of not just losing the gains from the hard work of the last nine months, but also losing precious lives of citizens.

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