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Motorcycle taxi ban brings Lagos to a halt

A mother and her baby try to get a ride from a motorbike taxi parked on a street in Lagos.

Even before a sudden controversial ban on motorcycle taxis and tricycles in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, crippling traffic jams were a daily ordeal for its more than 20 million inhabitants.

Now just a week on, getting around the city has become even more difficult.

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