American singer Lizzo has been hard at work in the gym, and her latest Instagram posts reveal just how much her efforts have paid off. The singer recently shared a series of stunning photos and a short video, showcasing a striking transformation that left fans in awe. In the snaps, Lizzo is seen sitting in a car, wearing a sheer white top and rocking "milkmaid braids." Her confident look drew widespread praise from followers, who flooded the comments with admiration. Many took the opportunity to clap back at past critics of the star, with some saying those who previously mocked her weight could “get bent.”

The singer’s fitness journey has been no secret to her social media followers. While it's unclear if a specific event sparked her decision to share more of her progress publicly, Lizzo made headlines earlier this year when South Park mocked her in an episode. True to her nature, she responded with humor, even dressing as an Ozempic-inspired parody of herself for Halloween.

The family of an 18-year-old British boy who is facing up to 20 years in a UAE prison over a holiday romance has warned that his mental health is 'declining'. Marcus Fakana, of Tottenham, was held in Dubai's 'notorious' Al Barsha Police Station for days after the 'strict' mother of a 17-year-old girl he had s£x with on holiday this summer reported him to Dubai authorities.

The teenagers who had met while staying at the same hotel with their families, 'had a wonderful time together', with the girl - also a Brit - meeting up in secret as she feared she could not tell her mother she was seeing a boy. Now, Marcus could face two decades inside a gruelling UAE prison after the girl's furious mother found out about the fling and informed police in Dubai upon returning back to the UK. While the relationship would have been legal in the UK, under Dubai law a 17-year-old is defined as a child. The girl has since turned 18.

Setting up a GoFundMe page to raise money for legal fees to bring him home, Marcus' family said: 'What was meant to be a happy time has turned into a nightmare for him, our family, and our friends. 'This has happened as a result of someone trying to misuse UAE law against him. 'He is being charged with a crime that could lead to imprisonment for up to 20 years. He is only 18 years old, very scared, and his mental health is starting to decline.'

Dubai only recently reformed its laws on s£x outside of marriage for tourists, but upholds a strict Islamic legal system, and has no firm ruling on age of consent. But under local law, a child is defined as a person under 18 years of age.The girl was just months away from turning 18 when the pair met in August. The teenagers were planning to continue their relationship when they returned to London. But it is understood the mother had found out about their relationship when she went through her daughter's phone and found their chats and pictures, later sharing them with Dubai police from the safety of the UK. Marcus had still been on holiday with his family when police suddenly turned up at the hotel and detained him for three days at Al Barsha Police Station.

He is still in Dubai as he fights the case, and the family are hoping to raise £20,000 to help with legal fees, accommodation, and travel costs to come back to the UK. In a previous GoFundMe page set up two months ago, the family alleged Marcus had been denied a translator and forced to sign a confession document he did not understand. They said: 'He has been wrongfully accused of a crime he did not commit, and is now caught in a legal battle in Dubai. 'This is not just a misunderstanding, it is racial discrimination, with someone seeking to use the UAE law against him. 'While detained he was denied access to a translator and forced to sign a confession document he didn't understand. He is only 18 years old, terrified, and very scared. 'His mental health is deteriorating rapidly.'

A Nigerian woman has been arrested by the 444th Combat Brigade in Tripoli, Libya, during a sting operation for allegedly possessing approximately 2 kilograms of cocaine. It was gathered that the woman, in collaboration with foreign accomplices, attempted to distribute the drugs on the local market. Migrant Rescue Watch, a humanitarian monitoring group, disclosed the arrest on Saturday via their X (formerly Twitter) account. According to the report, the woman was apprehended during a targeted operation aimed at dismantling drug networks in the Libyan capital.

The suspect is currently in custody following the completion of preliminary criminal investigations. The statement read, "Units of 444th Combat Brig. during sting-operation in Tripoli arrested a female of Nigerian nationality in possession of est. 2 kg of cocaine. The accused in collaboration with foreign accomplices attempted to sell the drugs on the local market. #Frontex "Following completion of criminal investigation the accused female remains in custody and the case was referred to public prosecution."

The Borno State Police Command has announced the successful recovery of eight unexploded ordnance (UXOs) in the Dala and Gwange areas of Maiduguri. The Command in a statement issued on Saturday by the Deputy Public Relations Officer, ASP Grace Michael, said that the recoveries were made on November 22, 2024, after reports of suspicious objects in the affected areas. Michael explained that the first incident occurred at approximately 8:43 am in the Dala-Abuja Talakawa area.

The spokesperson said this was after the residents reported a cluster of unidentified objects near an uncompleted building. “The Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (EOD-CBRN) Base 13 team responded swiftly, recovering six projectiles and one unexploded mortar bomb, which were safely relocated to a secure site. “Later that day, at about 1:00 pm, another report emerged from the Gwange area regarding a suspicious object along the riverbank. “The EOD-CBRN team was deployed to the scene and recovered an unexploded hand grenade,” the statement said

It added that preliminary investigations suggested that the ordnance were displaced and washed ashore by recent devastating floods in the state. According to the statement, the Police Command has since conducted Explosive Ordnance Risk Awareness (EORE) training for residents of both communities, educating them on safety measures.The statement further said that the Commissioner of Police, CP Yusufu Mohammed Lawal, reaffirmed the Command’s commitment to ensuring public safety, urging residents to remain calm, vigilant and to promptly report any suspicious objects or activities through the emergency lines: 0806 807 5581 and 0802 347 3293.

Abuja never runs out of surprises, and this story will leave you laughing out loud! A man living in an upscale estate gets more than he bargained for after exchanging numbers with Musa, the neighborhood aboki who runs a small kiosk. From harmless WhatsApp banter to an outright savage comment about the man’s fiancée.

The Senate leadership, under Godswill Akpabio, appears to have snubbed the family of the late senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Ifeanyi Ubah, as top sources confirmed to SaharaReporters the alleged abnormalities from the Upper Chamber to the deceased's family. The Senate leadership failed to set up a committee to liase with the family or the national burial committee.

Sources disclosed further that the Senate leadership never contacted the burial committee or the family to make input in the preparation of their late colleague's burial.  Ubah who represented the Anambra South Senatorial District at the National Assembly was laid to rest on Friday in his hometown, Otolo Nnewi in Anambra State.  Ubah who was re-elected into the 10th Senate under the Young Progressives Party in 2023 but defected to the All Progressives Congress, died in London on July 27. Dignitaries at the event were; the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi; Senator Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia North; former Senate President Bukola Saraki and Senator Victor Umeh of the Anambra Central district.

One of the sources revealed that only two of the nine Senators that attended the burial are from outside the South-East region. The source said, "Despite the eye service and pretences exhibited by the Senate President on Tuesday, 19th Nov during the Senate valedictory session for the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, the leadership of the Senate abandoned the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, their colleague who died as a serving Senator, despite being a member of their party, the ruling APC.

"The Senate leadership failed to set up committee to liase with the family or the National burial committee. The Senate leadership never contacted the burial committee or the family to make input in the preparation of their fallen colleague.

"They did not contribute a kobo to the committee throughout the preparation for the burial and the burial proper. Also, the Senate leadership never sent any delegation to Nnewi on 22nd November 2024 to mourn their departed colleague that died in active service."

Speaking further, another source corroborated, "Senator Osita Ngwu, the Senate Minority Whip that attended the burial was because of his personal relationship with the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and also the fact that Senator Osita Ngwu's wife is from same village (Otolo-Nnewi) with Senator Ubah. "Total of 9 Senators out of 109 Senators attended the burial namely Senator Abaribe Enyinnaya, Senator Osita Ngwu(Inlaw to Senator Ubah), Senator Izunaso, Senator Okey Ezea, Senator Victor Umeh, Senator Benson Agadaga, Senator Tony Nwoye, Senator Pam from Plateau and Senator Kelvin Chukwu. "It is worthy of note that 7 Senators out of the 9 Senators that attended the burial are from the South East; only 2 Senators outside South East attended namely Senator Pam from Plateau and Senator Agadaga from Bayelsa."

"No single Senator from Yoruba extraction, North West and also North East attended the burial, while South South and North Central had only 1 Senator each," another Senate source said.  "In the Christian parlance, the highest respect someone can pay a departed friend is to pay him last respect by attending the burial especially the burial mass/church service.

"What the Leadership of the Senate did to Senator Ifeanyi Ubah at death who they were dinning and enjoying with when he was alive leaves much to be desired and has exposed them as chamelonic fair weather friends." Another source close to the family added, "They did not contribute any kobo for his burial arrangements. They did not talk to or liaise with the burial committee for arrangements or preparations."

"During the Mass, no senator spoke in the church or on behalf of the Nigerian Senate as tradition demands." "The Senate leadership discouraged senators from attending the burial citing nonexistent security concerns. Also, the wife of the Senate President who leads the Senators Wives Forum never sent any delegation to Nnewi or condole with Mrs Uche Ubah," the source added.

Senator Ubah, an All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, died in a hotel in London, the United Kingdom in July.  The Senators had held a valedictory session on Tuesday in honour of the late senator.  Attempts to get the reactions of the Senate were not successful as of the time of filing this report.

Nigerian entertainer, DJ Chicken, found himself in the spotlight again after being removed from a train in the UK for allegedly causing a disturbance.  This incident reportedly occurred just hours after he was denied entry to a club. According to eyewitness accounts, DJ Chicken was asked to leave the train after ignoring repeated requests to remain seated and stop disrupting other passengers. In a video circulating on social media, the entertainer was seen filming other passengers, including some Caucasians, despite their discomfort.

An official on the train explained that DJ Chicken had separated from the group he boarded with and began "constituting a nuisance." The situation escalated, prompting authorities to intervene and remove him from the train.

A zoo guest named Naiphum Promratee was m@uled by a bear after he teased the animal with rice.  The 36-year-old's life changed irrevocably when he visited a remote temple in rural Thailand to see a "buffalo bear" living in a small enclosure with a community of monks.  Naiphum saw the animal, weighing 250kg, stuck in a small space for feeding - and decided to taunt it by dangling bowls of rice overhead.  But the bear stood on its hind legs and dragged him down.  In an instant, Naiphum was pulled back into the enclosure, knocked unconscious and m@uled. His flesh was torn from his chest by the animal.

Horrifying footage showed spectators trying in vain to scare away the bear as he mauled Naiphum.  His friends hit the bear with poles and threw cold water at it, to no avail.  The enraged animal continued to bite and scratch Promratee for almost a minute before it started dragging him across the dusty enclosure.   One of Naiphum's group ran into the enclosure and battered the bear in its cage with a pole while friends focused on a rescue.  Emergency services arrived just after 11am local time and rushed the bloodied man to hospital, where he is now recovering and able to talk.

 Dr. Kobchai Jirachanchai, Deputy Director of Phetchabun Hospital Medical Division, said Bing had inflicted deep wounds on Naiphum's back and sides.  He said: "There were a lot of bite and nail wounds. In addition, there was a leak in the lung and expected to be a small pierce wound in the wound.  "The patient also has acute renal failure. It is not dangerous. Recent symptoms have improve but we will watch closely for the next 48 hours. "The patient can talk and interact with visitors."

An Indian man narrowly avoided being cremated alive after he regained consciousness on a funeral pyre just moments before it was set alight. This occurred due to a doctor's failure to conduct a postmortem examination, according to medical officials on Saturday, November 23. Rohitash Kumar, a 25-year-old man with speaking and hearing difficulties, was taken to a hospital in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, on Thursday after falling sick.

Reports indicate he had suffered an epileptic seizure. However, a doctor declared him dead upon arrival at the hospital. Rather than conducting the mandatory postmortem to confirm the cause of death, medical staff sent Kumar’s body to the mortuary and then for cremation in line with Hindu funeral rites. Singh, the chief medical officer of the hospital, told AFP, “A doctor had prepared the postmortem report without actually doing the postmortem, and the body was then sent for cremation.”

Just as the funeral pyre was about to be lit, Kumar’s body began to move. Singh explained, “Shortly before the pyre was to be lit, Rohitash’s body started movements. He was alive and was breathing.” Kumar was rushed back to the hospital, but he was confirmed dead on Friday, November 22, during treatment. In response to the shocking incident, authorities have suspended three doctors, and police have opened an investigation.

The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has narrated how eight teenagers allegedly gang-r*ped and filmed a 14-year-old girl in the Ijebu-Mushin area of the state The narration was contained in a statement signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Dyke Ogbonnaya, and obtained by PUNCH Metro on Thursday. Ogbonnaya narrated that the suspects, which included 17-year-old Mathew Omotayo and seven others had taken the victim to a secluded room and had canal knowledge of her without her consent.

He added that the suspects also recorded the scene of the act and had continually used it as blackmail to deter the victim from reporting the incident. He identified the other suspects as “Mojeeb Solomon, male, 16 years; Olamilekan Adefuye, male, 18 years; Damilola Ismail, male, 19 years; Emmanuel George, male, 17 years; Aborisade Paul Ayomide, male, 17 years; Paul Chukwuchebe, male, 19 years; and Lateef Adeoye, male, 16 years.”

Ogbonnaya said, “The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ogun State Command Headquarters, Abeokuta, has arrested one Matthew Omotayo, male, 17 years and seven other suspected teenagers for alleged conspiracy, segxwal abuse, unlawful segxwal intercourse, exploitation and assault of a 14-year-old minor (name withheld) at the Ijebu-Mushin, Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State on Friday, November 15, 2024.

“The alleged suspects, who claimed to be students of St. Anthony Grammar School, Esure, Ijebu-Mushin, Ijebu East Local Government Area of the state, took the said minor without consent to a secluded room and had violent segxwal intercourse with her and putting the same event in a video form.

“According to the narrative of the assaulted minor, she was s3xually abused the first time and was recorded and the alleged suspects threatened to upload the video on social media if she did not allow them to have her again which she also consented to until her resolved to report the matter to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Divisional Office at Ijebu-Mushin, Ogun State.”

The NSCDC PRO noted that the victim, however, reported the matter after she was allegedly beaten and verbally assaulted by the suspects. e added that the victim’s statement led to the arrest of the teenagers while the victim was made to undergo a medical examination. Upon conducting a preliminary investigation, Ogbonnaya noted that the command sought a remand order which was granted by a magistrate court sitting in Ijebu.

Islamic morality police in Kano, a northern Nigerian city, are set to resume their crackdown on betting shops following a recent Nigerian Supreme Court ruling on gambling
On Friday, the Supreme Court annulled a 2005 law that established a national lottery commission and legalized sports betting and gambling. The court ruled that regulation of gambling should be handled by state governments.

Kano is one of 12 predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria where Islamic sharia law is applied alongside federal law. Abba Sufi, the Director General of the Kano Hisbah, told AFP, “We will resume our clampdown on betting shops with renewed determination since betting is illegal under Kano state sharia law.” The Hisbah is responsible for enforcing sharia law in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria. Last month, Hisbah operatives raided and shut down dozens of football betting shops in the city, arguing that gambling is prohibited under sharia. The raids were paused after the National Lottery Commission protested, claiming that betting on football was legal under Nigerian federal law through the 2005 Lottery Act.

“With this verdict, the controversy over who should regulate lottery legislation—federal or state governments—has been settled,” Sufi said. “We in Kano have always opposed the lottery law because it provided legal backing for gambling, which is clearly prohibited in Islam.”   There are about 200 betting shops in the city, where customers watch international soccer matches and horse races on TV while placing bets, according to Sydney Emeafu, head of the National Union of Gaming and Lottery Workers (NUGLOW) in Kano.

Sufi noted that the raids were prompted by concerns from parents, whose children had become involved in gambling due to their passion for football. He added that the harsh economic climate was driving more people into football betting, hoping to make quick money, leading to addiction.

Davido has taken to social media to pay a touching tribute to his late mother, Dr. Veronica Adeleke, on Posthumous birthday. The tribute comes as Davido celebrates his own 32nd birthday, marking another milestone in his music career.

In a brief tweet, Davido expressed his love and longing for his mother, who has had a lasting impact on his life. The message, accompanied by heartwarming emojis, read: “Happy birthday Mommy. Love and miss you .”

Crown Uzama, the popular Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Shallipopi, has claimed that he doesn’t smoke despite posing with cigarettes in his pictures and videos. He claimed that he uses cigarettes for aesthetics. The ‘Oba Pluto’ crooner disclosed this in a recent interview with Soundcity.

“One thing that my fans don’t know about me is that I don’t smoke. It’s just aesthetics,” he said. On what inspired him to do music, Shallipopi said, “What influences me to do music is hardship. You don’t want to go through hardship in this country.”

A fire at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has caused extensive damage to property worth millions of naira. That the incident occured in the early hours of Saturday. It was gathered from sources within the hospital that the fire gutted the Emergency and Accident Unit of the hospital. It was learnt that some office equipment, books, engines, electronic gadgets, roof and ceiling worth millions of naira were razed.It was learnt that the fire outbreak started at about 5am in a paedriatrics consultant office.

A source within the hospital said that the fire incident is suspected to have started from electric spark. It was learnt that about 16 patients had to be quickly rushed out of the ward. Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Omotayo Ogunleye confirmed the incident to DAILY POST Saturday. Ogunleye in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST however said that normal activities have resumed in the hospital. He said, “Yes it is true. It is a minor incident. But, normal activities have resumed in the hospital.”

A court A court in southeast France on Friday, November 22, sentenced a man to 20 years in jail for r@ping his teenage daughter and offering her up to strangers for s3x for years. The case echoed the ongoing high-profile trial that has shocked the nation in which 51 men are accused of r@ping Gisele Pelicot, drugged by her husband so he could invite strangers to their home to abuse her.
 
The court convicted the 38-year-old father in the southeastern Var region of forcing segxwal acts on his daughter from the age of 13. Prosecutor Estelle Bois described how the father exercised total control over the young girl, his adoptive daughter. He also brought her to other men, many of whom were much older, whom he contacted through online classified ads. The father claimed to the other men that he and his daughter were both consenting adults living out a s3xual fantasy. But he was convicted and sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison, in line with the prosecutors’ demands.
 
Some of the defendants in the Pelicot case have claimed that they were given that same impression by the victim’s then-husband, Dominique Pelicot. Also like Dominique Pelicot, the father in Friday’s case directed, participated in and filmed the s3x acts involving his daughter, who was blindfolded during the encounters. He admitted to the accusations but claimed in court that he had a loving relationship with the young girl and had responded to her allegedly initiating s3xual contact.
 
“This is not about love, but about power and domination. He doesn’t love [his daughter], he loves having total control over her, her belonging to him, her obeying him,” prosecutor Bois said. She also asked judges to jail a second defendant for 16 years, the only one of the other men to have abused the girl who could be identified.
 
As in the Pelicot case, the second defendant — a man in his 60s with six children — was identified thanks to the photo and video documentation by the father of the abuse, this time via geolocation data. The second defendant told the court that he had been taken in by the father’s claim that the girl was consenting in three of his four meetings with them. In the fourth, “things went badly. Rather than acting like a responsible man, he followed through on his own pleasure and closed his eyes” to the abuse, his lawyer Christophe Mairet said.
 
Now aged 18, the girl was accompanied in court by a golden retriever trained to comfort victims of abuse. She had, like Gisele Pelicot, declined the option of the trial being held behind closed doors. It was the teenager, then aged 15, who put a stop to her own abuse in 2021 by fleeing after her father’s violence and humiliation escalated. She ran from their home in Cavalaire-sur-Mer, south of the glitzy resort town Saint-Tropez, before being brought to the police by a holidaymaker. Her father had bombarded her phone with calls and texts throughout her escape.

Officers of the Nigerian Police Force will soon start wearing body cameras. This is according to the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi He revealed this during a recent interview.
 
Adejobi emphasized that the initiative is aimed at fostering public trust while ensuring accurate documentation of law enforcement activities. The use of body cams is expected to enhance professionalism among officers and provide reliable evidence for investigations and judicial processes.
 
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A Nigerian lady has had her eyes damaged due to jealousy. It was gathered that the lady's sister damaged her eyes because men prefer the sister to her. A video of the helpless lady with her bulging eyes was shared on Tiktok with the caption:
 
“Jealousy can be witchcraft in disguise. See what a sister did to her own blood because men prefer her younger sister’s beauty over hers.”
 
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The 34 members of the House of Representatives who sponsored a bill to amend the 1999 Constitution to establish a six-year single term for the president have decided to reintroduce the proposal. Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere (PDP-Imo) said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday, following the rejection of the bill on Nov. 21 during plenary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the bill sought the introduction of a six-year single term for the president, governors, and local government chairmen.

NAN also reports that the bill sought zonal rotation of presidential and governorship seats, as well as holding all elections in one day. Ugochinyere, however, said that all hope was not lost on the bill, as more consultations would be done. The lawmaker, who is the lead sponsor of the bill, said that the decision on the floor of the house would not put an end to agitation and hope, insisting that the objective behind the bill would be realised.

“The struggle to reform our constitutional democracy to be all-inclusive and provide an avenue for justice, equity, and fairness has not been lost. “The decision on the floor of the house yesterday (Thursday) not to allow the bill for six-year single tenure and all elections to hold in one day will not end the agitation,” he said.

Ugochinyere described the rejection of the bill as a temporary setback that would not affect the campaign for an all-inclusive democratic process. “We are going to review this decision and find possible ways of reintroducing it after, following due legislative procedures. “All I can tell Nigerians is that we will continue the advocacy and convince our colleagues to see reason with us. “If elections are held in one day, it will reduce cost and rigging.“If power rotates, it will help de-escalate political tensions, and a six-year single term will go a long way in helping elective leaders to focus on delivering their democratic mandate,” he said.

Singer, Davido and his wife, Chioma have showed off their cooking skills. The couple entered the kitchen following the successful celebration of Davido's birthday. Taking to his Instagram story, he shared a video of him and Chioma in the kitchen as they took turns to taste the meal they were making. In the clip, Chioma warned Davido to be careful as the food was hot.
 
“You don’t know what’s going on. I think this; you know it’s hot, so be careful. And hey, I told you”.

A Nigerian lady has revealed that a friend who tried to r3pe her assaulted her at a club. It happened after the lady and her friends tried to confront the alleged r3pist. She took to X to share her story.
 
She wrote, “So in September, a male friend attempted to rape me, and I’ve been working with the police to get a hold of him since then.” However, despite police efforts, she continued to encounter him at various clubs. “Bear in mind that I still see this person in clubs, and when he sees me, he’d look me in the eye and throw money in my direction without any shame or remorse,” she explained. On one such occasion, she and a friend saw him at a club, and she decided to confront him. “Last night, I saw him again, and he was looking me dead in the eye without remorse. After the party, my friends and I went to our usual late-night spot.”

“I felt bad about the entire situation and burst into tears. Just then, the guy walked in with his friends. In the heat of the moment, I walked up to him and told him that I hadn’t forgotten what he did and that we still had to sort it out.”
 
She continued, “My friends confronted him, and an argument started between us and his friends. All this time, he sat on a chair, laughing and not denying any of the allegations because he knew what he had done.”
 
Things escalated quickly. “Long story short, his friend, who was also involved in the attempted rape, punched me until I passed out, and blood came from my mouth and body. After I was revived by the restaurant staff, I realized that they had beaten my friend as well and torn her clothes. They claimed to have political backing and said I couldn’t do anything about it. They might escape the police, but at least I’ll tell my story here and try my best to get justice.”

She shared evidence of her injuries, urging people to help spread her story. “These are some clips showing what was done to me. Please help me get this out there and post their pictures as well.”
 
She ended with a heartfelt plea: “Excuse my typos, my hands are literally shaking. I’m sure there are many other cases like this that have been swept under the carpet because of how he parades himself as influential.”