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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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[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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[Premium Times] Only 37 countries have so far committed to disclose some or all extractive contracts.

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[New Frame] Small-scale fishers in northern KwaZulu-Natal are demanding justice from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority after rangers allegedly shot and killed a resident who was fishing in St Lucia Lake.

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[New Times] Located in Rongi Sector of Muhanga District, Busaga natural forest once occupied 300 hectares of land but has been reduced to less than 150 hectares due to agriculture, wood exploitation and settlement.

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[DW] Local vigilantes and police have rescued a group of children who were kidnapped by an armed gang. The release followed a shoot-out in northwestern Nigeria.

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LOS ANGELES — Relatives of a Covina couple killed during a police pursuit sued two cities and the state Wednesday, alleging the negligent actions of three police agencies and the driver they were trying to pull over led to the deaths. The plaintiffs are all family members of Edward Louie Contreras and Gracie Contreras. The […]

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Two people arrested for allegedly stabbing a 90-year-old pensioner to death and severely injuring her blind 71-year-old son have abandoned their bail application.

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Dear Editor,

When initially it was given several ‘nick-names’, one was ‘Longest Floating Socialist Bridge’ (referring to Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham during whose regime the Demerara Harbour Bridge was erected).

The article Engineering maintenance feat on harbour bridge should be recognised appeared first on Stabroek News.

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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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