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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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Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler has strongly rejected plans by the WNBA to dedicate the upcoming basketball season to social justice with the lawmaker saying 'no one has asked politics to come into sports'. According to Yahoo News, Loeffler, a co-owner of WNBA team Atlanta Dream, wrote a letter to Catherine Engelbert in which Loeffler described...

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[Vanguard] The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and education experts have called equal opportunities for girls and women to access quality education in order to actualise their potentials in the society, stating that 9.5 million girls aged between 10 and 17 are out-of-school in the country.

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