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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 Allegheny County Health Department reported 34 new deaths and 727 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. To date, ACHD has reported 35,541 cases, 619 deaths and 2,361 past and present hospitalizations. The newly-reported deaths occurred from Nov. 20 to Dec. 8. The deaths included one individual in their 40s, one in their 50s, four in their … Continued

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[New Era] Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) chief executive officer, Theo Grunewald, says the financial grants that will soon be coming from the continental rugby governing body Rugby Africa will be used for various developmental projects.

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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans waiting for Republicans in Congress to acknowledge Joe Biden as the president-elect may have to keep waiting until January as GOP leaders stick with President Donald Trump's litany of legal challenges and unproven claims of fraud. Tuesday's deadline for states to certify their elections — once viewed as a pivot point for Republicans to mark Biden's win — came and went without much comment. Next week's Dec. 14 Electoral College deadline may produce just a few more congratulatory GOP calls to Biden. Increasingly, GOP lawmakers say the Jan. 6 vote […]

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NEW president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Winston Smith has expressed concern for the safety of teachers as the country continues to record new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), especially since more schools were approved this week by the Ministry of Education to resume face-to-face classes.

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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said they had recorded a high number of COVID-19 infections amongst people aged between 15-19, in the previous two days

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THE NATURE Conservancy (TNC), one of the world’s leading conservation organisations, along with partners, has published detailed maps of important shallow underwater habitats throughout the entire Caribbean, among them all shallow water coral reefs...

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Welcome To The NBA: LaMelo Ball Cops Iced-Out Grill

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… and a small group of African-American men populated the military’s … on to become the first African-American to lead NASA. The two … in 1877 became the first African-American graduate of West Point and …

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… economic well-being of black Americans is a health care … white Americans. And for black Americans under the age of … at the time.

Unsurprisingly, African Americans are suffering more health issues … future of equity for black Americans starts with physical and …

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National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) commissioner Geoffrey Chada says the commission would look into the issue of the Gukurahundi genocide next year during public hearings. Evans Mathanda Chada said this on Tuesday during an NPRC capacity-building workshop in Harare which discussed the commission's activities to be rolled out next year, including the public hearings. He, however, said the commission was facing challenges in that there was lack of dialogue between the NPRC and citizens, adding that people also did not understand its role. Chada said lack of knowledge on the terms of reference of the NPRC, had hindered progress because people were not presenting complaints to the commission. “Issues like Gukurahundi are actually things that we expect to be raised during our public hearings, however, Gukurahundi is not the only crisis that the commission is going to be dealing with next year,” Chada said. “There are a lot of crisis situations in the country like the issue of resettling of the people in Chiyadzwa and other areas like Chimanimani that have been affected by natural disasters. All these issues of need to be well addressed in order to foster national healing”, he said. Chada said the NPRC was in the process of identifying issues of paramount importance that affected people, including those of electoral violence. “People are also allowed to come before the NPRC and ask whether the reports on the 2018 electoral violence were properly implemented so that they put forward their complaints before the commission. “There is nothing that we will leave behind in dealing with the issues. “We are not going to be challenged by anyone, we will work in accordance with the NPRC Act which empowers us to deal with issues of peace and reconciliation,” he said. Chada said there were a lot of sensitive things that would be exposed next year when the NPRC public hearings began, adding that some of the issues would be new to the media and the people of Zimbabwe.

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