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Kodak Black freed from jail after drug possession charge is dismissed

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American rapper, Kodak Black has been freed from the Broward County jail after Florida Judge Jose Martinez dismissed the drug possession charge against him.

The “Super Gremlin” rapper walked out of detention Wednesday night, meaning he’ll be free to witness the birth of his son due later this week.

“It was important for him to be out for the birth of his son,” his lawyer Bradford Cohen tells Rolling Stone. “This is his fourth child. He has been at every birth, so to miss the birth would have been very detrimental to him.”

Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was arrested on Dec. 7 when Florida police allegedly found him asleep at the wheel of his black Bentley in a community neighboring Fort Lauderdale.

An officer said powder recovered from Kapri tested positive for cocaine at the scene, but follow-up lab testing revealed it was oxycodone. Once Kapri’s defense team submitted proof he had a July 2022 prescription for oxycodone, a Broward County judge rejected the drug possession charge on Feb. 9.

Kapri, 26, wasn’t immediately released two weeks ago because his arrest led to the revocation of his bond in a separate 2022 Florida case alleging trafficking in oxycodone.

It also triggered questions about whether he violated the three years of supervised release he was serving after former President Donald Trump commuted the three-year federal prison sentence he received for falsifying documents in the purchase of a firearm. The federal supervision was due to end this past January if he had no violations.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez said Kapri did indeed violate the terms of his supervised release, but he sentenced the rap star to “time served with no supervised release to follow.”

Speaking after the hearing, Cohen said Kapri “essentially” pleaded to failing to report his “contact” with state police contact. After spending the last 10 weeks in lockup, Kapri is now free and clear of his federal case, Cohen confirmed.

“It’s a good resolution. The judge was very concerned about Kodak but also understood the nature of what was going on with state cases,” Cohen tells Rolling Stone. “The judge said lot of things that resonated with him in terms of prescription drugs, that you have to be very careful, and you have to watch exactly how you feel, what’s going on, and get help when you need help. The judge was very complimentary about the type of work Kodak does for the community, but he was also concerned, obviously, that he doesn’t do any harm to himself – and that he gets any type of help that he needs.”

Kapri is still facing prosecution in the 2022 trafficking case in Broward County and for a remaining tampering charge related to the December arrest.

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Popular Nigerian filmmaker Kayode Peters dies in Canada

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Famous Nigerian filmmaker and producer, Kayode Peters is dead.

The 49-year-old reportedly died in Canada on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

Seun Oloketuyi, a popular Nigerian filmmaker and the founder of Best Of Nollywood, BON Awards, announced the sad news on his Facebook page.

He wrote; “Bad News emerging from Canada indicates Filmmaker Kayode Peters is dead.”

As at the time of filing this report, the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear.

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‘Maybe I’m not good at marriage’ – Frank Edoho announces second divorce

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Famous Nigerian media personality and TV host, Frank Edoho, has revealed that his second marriage has crashed.

Ekwutosblog recalls that Edoho married his second wife, Sandra Onyenuchenuya, after his first marriage to Katherine Obiang hit the rocks in 2011.

Featuring in a recent episode of the Tea With Tay podcast, the TV personality disclosed that he and his second wife had separated.

 

He explained that he did his best for the two marriages but they all failed.

He said, “Maybe I’m not good at marriage, I must confess. The two women I had been married to are not my soul mates. Love of your life is different from your soul mate. The love of your life is the person who comes to your mind when you think of love. But your soul mate is someone who understands you even before you express yourself and you naturally align with.

“I know that I went above and beyond for the two marriages. I carried my partner… I can abandon everything for her. But you don’t blame them for falling out of love with you. Take the footballer Kaka for example, he’s a Brazilian and he looks as handsome as an Indian. Very handsome guy, even when he retired from football, he was still handsome. But his wife divorced him. Do you know what she said? ‘He is too good’.”

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I was living in bondage while married to Annie – 2Face

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Legendary Nigerian musician, Innocent Ujah Idibia, popularly known as 2Face, has opened up about his struggles in his marriage to his estranged wife, Annie Macaulay.

He described the experience as “living in bondage.”

He claimed that his life was also threatened while in the marriage.

The ‘African Queen’ crooner made the claims in a snippet of the upcoming episode of +234 Mzansi Podcast co-hosted by Nigerian comedians Nedu, Acapella and South African media personality, Kifilwe.

“This thing wey dem call ‘living in bondage’ is real. There were some people who were ready to kill me,” he said while responding to a question about his failed marriage to Annie.

2Baba and Annie got married in May 2012, and they have two daughters, Isabella and Olivia.

The singer announced his separation from Annie in a controversial post on his page on Sunday, January 26, 2025.

Shortly after, he began flaunting his new lover, Natasha Osawuru, a member of the Edo State House of Assembly.

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