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  • Babatunde Fashola during a campaign rally for his re-election in Yaba district in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday.

    Photos of the Day 2011

  • According to the Superintendent of Police (SP), the suspect was being detained and quizzed by the homicide operatives attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti Street, Yaba, Lagos, for further investigation into the matter.

    Man, 60, Kills Brother-In-Law Over Inadequate Care Of Sister 2008

  • I spoke with a doctor pal who recommended a gynaecologist somewhere in Yaba reputed to be one of the best hands in the field.

    I am anxious! princesa 2007

  • I spoke with a doctor pal who recommended a gynaecologist somewhere in Yaba reputed to be one of the best hands in the field.

    Archive 2007-10-01 princesa 2007

  • Having once, at Yaba busstop been the victim of pickpockets and having had to beg the fare home off a generous passerby, I'm quite susceptible to helping out in this sort of predicament.

    Too busy to blog,flexiworking, well-heeled begging and The State(or fate) of Africa uknaija 2006

  • Having once, at Yaba busstop been the victim of pickpockets and having had to beg the fare home off a generous passerby, I'm quite susceptible to helping out in this sort of predicament.

    Archive 2006-02-01 uknaija 2006

  • Some 500,000 people are expected to attend the rally, which is to take place at Yaba bus stop, a prominent commercial district in the centre of the economic capital, its organisers said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Yaba, thence forming a main tributary of the River Auja.

    With the British Army in The Holy Land

  • The region is notorious for drug smuggling and 920,000 amphetamine pills, a hugely popular stimulant in Thailand known locally as "Yaba", were found on board one of the Chinese ships.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Malcolm Moore 2011

  • An Associated Press reporter found two lists in Lagos' busy Yaba commercial district - and those were on the same block as the state office of the election commission.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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