American rapper Dajua Blanding, popularly known as Dank DeMoss, is suing ride-hailing company Lyft for weight discrimination after a driver refused her service, citing her size.

She said she was humiliated by the incident, which she filmed with her cellphone and posted on TikTok.

“I was hurt and embarrassed. I have been in that same type of car many times and never had an issue. This was someone who was discriminating against me just because of my weight,” DeMoss told CBS News.

The 489-pound Detroit rapper’s lawyers say the driver violated Michigan’s anti-discrimination laws, which include weight as a protected characteristic.

In a written statement, Lyft maintained that it does not condone any form of discrimination.

The company emphasized that its “community guidelines and terms of service explicitly prohibit harassment or discrimination.”

Popular media personality, Daddy Freeze has alleged that singer 2face’s rumored new lover is an honorable woman.

DAILY POST reports that 2face on Sunday in a viral deleted post, announced his separation and divorce from Annie, his wife.

The singer’s announcement triggered massive backlash from netizens and fans, including celebrities.

Weighing into the ongoing discussions about the marriage crash, Daddy Freeze explained that he wouldn’t take sides due to his closeness with both parties.

While shading the couple, the media personality alleged that 2Face is known to be a cheat which Annie knew about and chose to marry him.

Revealing 2Face’s alleged new lover in a trending video on social media, Daddy Freeze referred to the mystery woman as an “honorable member.”

Daddy Freeze wrote; “2Baba Seen With New Honorable Woman Amidst Divorce Announcement.”

Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has declared that he has no plans of dumping the All Progressives Congress (APC).

El-Rufai made the clarification on Tuesday when he was asked directly about his plans by journalists at the venue of a just concluded National Conference in Abuja.

He added that he has been vocal about misgivings in the party because he wants to see a change.

“I am not leaving the APC. I don’t have such plans,” he said.

In response to further questions on why he has been hard on the party, El-Rufai said: “No, no, no, I want them to change.”

It would be recalled that El-Rufai, had while speaking on Monday, said the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) has deviated from its founding mission.

Naija News reports that El-Rufai said he no longer recognizes his party. He stated that APC was created to solve a problem, but that would not be possible again.

Speaking at a national conference in Abuja on strengthening democracy in Nigeria, he said, “I no longer recognize the APC. No party organ has met in two years—no caucus, no NEC, nothing. You don’t even know if it is a one-man show; it’s a zero-man show.”

The former Minister of the Federal Captial Territory (FCT) urged Nigerians to resist incapable leaders and illiterates ascending to leadership positions.

“You cannot afford to have illiterates, semi-illiterates, and cunning people as your leaders. This is why we end up with the poor leadership we have today.

“The problems that led to the creation of the APC remain unresolved, but I no longer believe the APC is interested in addressing them. The distance between me and the party is widening,” he clarified.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary), Sen. Lawal Adamu Usman, disclosed that presently, Nigeria has about 7.6 million out-of-school children.

Sen. Usman, who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial District, charged religious and traditional leaders in the country to champion the adequate education and empowerment of the girl child in their respective communities.

He also appealed to the World Bank to expand its Adolescents Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project to cover 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the interest of the girl-child all over Nigeria.

Sen. Usman stated this on Tuesday in Abuja in his goodwill message to the National Conference on Girl-Child Education and Empowerment with Traditional and Religious Leaders in Nigeria, which had the theme “Effective Partnerships on Girls Education, Out of School Children Education for National Development.”

The senator emphasised that without the support of the religious and traditional leaders in the country, the level of education the girl-child could attain in life “will remain a mirage.”

The Senate Committee Chairman on Education (Basic and Secondary) maintained that religious and traditional leaders throughout the country have crucial roles in raising and empowering girls’ education standards.

He further disclosed that his committee has been working assiduously on the amendment of the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill, which is now at the third reading stage before the Senate, as well as the Bill for an Act to amend the Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act, Cap N4 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2024 and for other Related Matters 2024, which is being sponsored by himself and has passed the second reading stage.

Sen. Usman stressed that when the bill is finally enacted, it will revolutionise and revitalise basic education, including girl-child education in Nigeria.

“3.9 million of them are girls at the primary level, and 3.7 million others are at the junior secondary level. More than 50% of girls in our country are not attending school at the basic education level. Regrettably, about one million girls drop out between primary school’s first and last year, and 0.6 million between primary six and JSS1.”

“Girls account for 38% of Nigeria’s out-of-school children. Their education is being hindered by major barriers such as child marriage, poverty and gender discrimination. All these prevent the girl-child from learning and completing her education,” the senator said.

The National Conference hosted by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, who delivered the Keynote Address on the occasion, was also attended by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III; Emir of Argungu, Samaila Muhammad Mera; Oba Tajudeen Jimoh from Ekiti State, religious leaders and other stakeholders from across the country.

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed troops who have arrested claims that wanted terrorist kingpin Bello Turji in the North West.

Social media has been awash with unverified reports that the wanted terror leader has been arrested.

Bello Turji has been responsible for unrest in Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina and other North Western states.

He was declared wanted by the military in early 2024, and in December 2024, he was declared a “dead man walking.”

Reacting to the reports, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, said, “Please treat all news regarding the arrest of Bello Turji by troops as fake news.”

According to the ruling party, Atiku, at the national conference on Strengthening Democracy in Nigeria held in Abuja on Monday, warned that judicial involvement in electoral matters somewhat imperils the nation‘s democracy.

APC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, flayed the former president for alleging that President Bola Tinubu was paying confident opposition leaders a whooping N50 million each to discombobulate opposition parties in the country.

“In the Atiku era as Vice President, particularly in 2003 and 2007, the PDP conducted the worst elections in our political history. We cannot possibly forget how Atiku’s PDP heavy-handedly captured most South-West states and vowed to remain in power for 60 years.

“It was in those same years that Atiku’s former boss and then President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, infamously described the election as a „do or die affair“ in a desperate attempt to annex Lagos.

“If democracy was neither derailed nor endangered in those perilous days, is it now that elections are freer, fairer and more credible that Nigeria risks losing democracy?

“The judicial branch of government is a constitutional creation like the executive and legislative branches with its constitutionally defined powers to adjudicate disputes among citizens and between citizens and the state.

„Atiku cannot wish away or seek to abolish enshrined power of the courts to intervene in civil disputes, including electoral disputes, in cases where a litigant validly invokes the authority of the court.

“It is ironic that Atiku, Nigeria’s most prolific electoral litigator, would make such a ludicrous claim that judicial involvement in electoral matters threatens democracy.  His criticism of the courts and the electoral process rings hollow, given his long history of using the courts to further his political agenda. It is time for him to step back and let the democratic process unfold without his interference.

“Atiku‘s allegation that the APC-led administration was paying out 50 Million Naira to some opposition figures is simply bogus and laughable.  Atiku knows his political desperation is responsible for the PDP’s catastrophic disintegration. Peddling rumours and unsubstantiated allegations should be beneath anyone in the standing of an elder statesman, a former Vice President and a serial contestant for the exalted office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The bizarre suggestion by opposition figures like Atiku, Peter Obi, and recently, aggrieved leaders like Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that our great Party may be complicit in the internal corrosion of opposition parties is pitiful and only an incompetent alibi for their crass failure to manage their affairs.

They cannot govern their parties but tout their ability to rule Africa’s most populous country.

“As discerning citizens, Nigerians know better than to be distracted by the false alarm and hollow allegations of desperate politicians whose only goal is to shore up their political relevance in the 2027 general elections,“ he added.

Barely two weeks after the Tanker Explosion Killed 100 people at Dikko Junction, Niger state, another Tanker accident occurred in the Agaie local government area of the state.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the lone tanker was entirely gutted by fire, but two injuries were recorded, and no life was lost due to the accident.

It was learnt that the accident occurred between Lapai and Agaie Road immediately after the bridge separating the two towns.

An eyewitness account revealed that the driver and the conductor sustained minor injuries as the Road users and Residents of the villages along the scene of the accident stayed off the area for their safety.

Confirming this, the State command‘s Police Public Relations Officer PPRO Wasiu Abiodun said, “There was a lone fuel tanker accident with fire explosion along Agaie/Lapai road. The fuel tanker, with Reg.

No. DKA 03 A was driven by one Shamsudeen Dayabu of Matazun LGA of Katsina State on transit from Lagos to Kaduna and loaded with about forty thousand litres of PMS.“

“On reaching the Kusogbogi area of Agaie, the tanker lost control due to a busted front tyre and fell by the road into the drainage. As a result, the tanker caught fire, which affected the driver on the leg, and the motor boy was also affected.“

He said they were taken to a nearby hospital, saying, „No life was lost during the incident as the road was temporarily closed, but normalcy was later restored for road users.“

No fewer than 3,690 Nigerians are currently at risk of deportation from the United States of America.

This is part of the implementation of a broader strategy to enforce immigration laws under the Trump administration.

A document compiled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has the breakdown of the number of non-citizens facing deportation by country of origin.

The data, as of November 24, 2024, shows that there are 1,445,549 non-citizens on ICE’s non-detained docket with final removal orders.

In the document titled Noncitizens on the ICE Non-Detained Docket with Final Orders of Removal by Country of Citizenship, Mexico and El Salvador are the top two countries, with 252,044 and 203,822 individuals, respectively, facing deportation. Nigeria, with 3,690 individuals, is among the countries with significant numbers of people at risk.

ICE is tasked with protecting U.S. national security by addressing cross-border crime and illegal immigration.

Reports indicate that Nigerians, along with other African immigrants, could be among the next groups targeted for deportation as Trump’s administration intensifies its efforts to clear the country of undocumented immigrants. The threat of deportation has created widespread fear among Nigerian nationals illegally residing in the U.S.

In a recent disclosure that has sent shockwaves across the Christian community, the General Overseer of Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeome, spoke glowingly about Pastor Korede Komaiya, the General Overseer of The Master’s Place, describing him as “one of the most blessed pastors to have served and come out of Winners.”

Pastor Ibiyeome highlighted Pastor Komaiya’s exceptional results and divine favour.

He went further to call Pastor Komaiya a “master of time,” attributing his rapid rise and impactful ministry to his unique ability to align with God’s timing and purpose. He emphasised that no one who has left Winners Chapel, the ministry founded by Bishop David Oyedepo, has achieved the level of success and influence that Pastor Komaiya has attained.

This statement has sparked conversations about the significance of divine timing, faithfulness in service, and the power of God’s blessings in ministry. Pastor Komaiya, known for his dynamic teachings and transformative leadership, continues to inspire many with his journey from serving in Winners Chapel to leading a globally impactful ministry.

As the Christian community reflects on the insights, one thing is clear: Pastor Korede Komaiya’s story is a testament to the power of divine alignment, hard work, and unwavering faith. His journey serves as a reminder that when God’s timing meets human dedication, extraordinary results follow.

The Pa Ayo Adebanjo-led faction of Afenifere, a prominent Yoruba sociopolitical group, has appointed lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi as its National Organising Secretary.

Naija News reports that the decision was made at a general meeting held at Adebanjo’s residence in Isanya Ogbo, Ogun State, on Tuesday.

This development was disclosed in a communiqué jointly signed by the Deputy Leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, and the National Publicity Secretary, Prince Justice Faloye.

The statement read: “The General Meeting considered and approved the appointment of Barrister Dele Farotimi as the National Organising Secretary of the Afenifere.”

Farotimi’s new role comes shortly after Aare Afe Babalola, a renowned legal icon, agreed to withdraw a defamation lawsuit against him.

The suit stemmed from alleged defamatory remarks in Farotimi’s book, Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System.

Farotimi had been arraigned in an Ekiti State High Court in Ado-Ekiti and granted bail in the sum of ₦30 million.

His legal troubles drew public attention, particularly as they coincided with high-profile interventions by figures like the Ooni of Ife, which ultimately led to Babalola’s decision to withdraw the case.