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United States District Judge Philip M. Halpern, has sentenced rapper, Caswell Senior also known as Casanova, to over 15 years in prison for racketeering and narcotics-related offenses. Judge Halpern delivered the judgement on Tuesday, 27 June. He jailed the rapper for 188 months, or a little more than 15 years, for his role as a leader in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang, aka Gorilla Stone. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, made the announcement on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Caswell Senior is not just a notorious recording artist, but…
The Walk of Fame Selection Panel of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced L Chadwick Boseman among celebrities that will be immortalized on the historic landmark in 2024. The late actor is set to receive a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three years after his death from colon cancer at age 43. The American actor is best known for portraying the superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) from 2016 to 2019. Other stars that will achieve the career milestone next year include Michelle Yeoh, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Christina Ricci, Ken Jeong, Kerry…
A 33-year-old asylum seeker has been charged with the rape of a woman in Skegness, Lincolnshire crossing the Channel in a dinghy. Police said he allegedly committed the crime 40 days after arriving in the United Kingdom. The victim said she was dragged into bushes by a stranger and attacked, The Sun reports. A Lincolnshire Police spokesman said: “Officers were called to the Tower Gardens area of Skegness just after 10.40pm on Friday, June 9 to a report of a sexual assault.” At a Magistrates Court hearing today, the defendant was denied bail and is awaiting his first crown court…
Sinikiwe Kademaunga, a Zimbabwean motivational speaker born without limbs, and her husband, Reuben, are expecting their first child. Kademaunga shared the news on her Instagram account on Wednesday morning with pictures of herself and her baby bump saying: “Blessings ❤️” Kademaunga and her husband, Reuben, got married in October 2021. Tweeps have taken to Twitter to congratulate the couple. A tweep, Oluwasegun said: “Congratulations to the Kademaungas!” Oluwakemi reacted, writing: “The wonders of God. He does as he pleases….Congratulations to both of them.” “Our God is wonderful ! I’m happy for this family. Inpray for safe delivery and divine grace…
Colombian pop star Shakira, in a new interview with People en Español, shared that her father, William Mubarak Chadid, was coming to visit her in Barcelona, Spain, amid her split from Gerard Pique when he was “gravely injured” in an accident. Shakira’s personal life was in chaos in 2022 after she allegedly discovered Piqué, her long-term partner was cheating on her with the woman he is now dating publicly, 24-year-old Clara Chía. The 46-year-old Colombian pop star announced her separation from former Barcelona team captain Piqué, in a joint statement in June of that year — and things only got…
Despite a process disputed by the opposition, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio has emerged winner of the 2023 presidential election with 56.17% to serve a second term. The head of the electoral commission said on Tuesday, 27 June, 2023. His main challenger Samura Kamara came second with 41.16 percent of the vote, according to final results announced in Freetown by commission chief Mohamed Kenewui Konneh. “By the powers invested in me… I hereby certify that Bio Julius Maada… (is) duly elected president,” Konneh said. Vote tallying had already been disputed by the opposition All People’s Congress (APC), which condemned…
Plans have been concluded to relocate 10,000 Nigerian pilgrims to another area in Mina following complaints of inadequate tents to accommodate the pilgrims. The authorities in Saudi Arabia reached the conclusion after reports emerged that Nigerian pilgrims participating in the holy pilgrimage were stranded at Mina. Mina is a camping site pilgrims stay before moving to Mount Arafat. In a statement on Tuesday, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) stated that the new arrangement was made after it engaged with officials of Muttawwif, who are responsible for the welfare of African Non Arabs in the Kingdom. A pilgrim had…
Donald Trump has responded to newly obtained audio of the former president discussing his retention of secret documents, acknowledging their classified status, and joking about how it was too late to declassify them. The tape, first obtained by CNN, was allegedly made at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, in 2021. Its existence and part of its transcript were reported earlier this month by CNN. The bombshell audio revealed Trump apparently bragged about possessing still-classified military documents about Iran after he left the White House. In the recording, from a July 2021 meeting at Mr. Trump’s Bedminster golf club,…
Sierra Leone President Julius Bio is currently leading in the presidential election, according to the provisional results published by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ESCL) showed on Monday. The ESCL said it had so far tallied about 60 per cent of the total votes cast in Saturday’s election. The first set of results by the electoral commission shows that Mr Bio has 56 per cent of the votes tallied so far while his closest rival, Samura Kamara, of the All People’s Congress (APC), has 42 per cent. According to the electoral law, in order to win in the first…
American rapper, Bill Kapri, popularly known as Kodak Black, did not show up to his court date at Broward County on Monday. He was booked at a Florida jail on Monday, 26 June, for about an hour. Recall that Kodak was arrested in July 2022 and charged with trafficking oxycodone after police say they found 31 oxycodone pills in his car. He posted $75,000 bail and was released with pretrial restrictions in place, including mandatory drug tests. The rapper’s lawyer, Bradford Cohen claimed that it was good thing as his client has been on a tight leash during his pretrial…