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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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[The Conversation Africa] Demographic data are important for national development. They are useful in sectoral planning and should influence the direction of government priorities.

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

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Analysis - Married is by choice but for Mariam (not her real name) it was as a consequent of abject poverty and the desire to be freed from bondage. She is married to a man who freed her from slavery in Libya as his third wife.

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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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[This Day] Nigeria's national grid failed at least once every month between 2009 and 2019, throwing the country into darkness, a report on the status of the electricity industry has disclosed.

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By Andrew Lawrence - Andrew Lawrence The former NFL player believes uncomfortable conversations are a way of bridging the racial divide. So he wrote a book about them. What’s in a name? Power, says Emmanuel [...]

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[This Day] A surge in attacks on Nigerian farmers is having a knock-on effect on the country's food reserves, Bloomberg has reported.

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President-elect 

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