Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the embattled US rapper, has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering.

The Associated Press reports that a federal indictment was unsealed on Tuesday — a few hours after the rapper was arrested by officers with Homeland Security Investigations at the hotel where he was staying, the Park Hyatt New York on 57th Street.

The 54-year-old media mogul has been in the public eye since November 2023 after several women, including Cassie Ventura, the rapper’s ex-girlfriend, took him to court, claiming they were sexually assaulted.

Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, Diddy’s former producer, also filed a lawsuit alleging that the rapper sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him for over a year.

In March, the United States Department of Homeland Security raided two properties linked to Diddy.

In May, a video surfaced showing Combs assaulting Cassie in 2016.

Diddy, who had denied Cassie’s claims, however, apologised. He said he was “truly sorry” and that his actions were “inexcusable”.

A Nigerian man identified as Salisu Ahmed has shared his experience living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for 31 years.

In a recent interview with reality star Doyin David, Ahmed revealed that he contracted the virus after his first extramarital sexual encounter.

He discussed the stigma he faced, including being denied access to a shared toilet and bathroom, losing his teaching job, and being abandoned by his wife and children.

“I am Salisu Ahmed, I have been living with this virus for 31 years,” he said.

“The first experiment of going outside my matrimonial home is how it happened. It has been proven that about 85 to 90 percent of people living with HIV contracted this thing through sexual intercourse.

“I was denied the use of the bathroom of the compound, I was not allowed to access the toilet, I was formerly a teacher so I was asked honourably to stop coming to the school.

“She packed everything including the children at home, they left me.”

Portable, the controversial singer, has apologised for slapping a man who he claimed was preaching close to his bar.

Last week, the ‘Zazoo Zeh’ hitmaker shared a video wherein he confronted the preacher outside his establishment in Sango Ota, Ogun state.

The apparently infuriated singer queried the middle-aged man before slapping him.

Portable was heavily criticised on social media for slapping the man who appeared to hold a Bible.

But in an Instagram post on Monday, Portable explained that he wouldn’t have slapped the preacher if he knew he was a “true man of God”.

The singer said “I am a human being and I’m not perfect” while apologising for his actions.

Portable said he attacked the preacher because he believed the “man was at my bar to inflict spiritual harm on me”.

“My fans, they wanted to see me up. Yes, may God forgive me because I didn’t know that he is a man of God. If I knew that he was a man of God, I wouldn’t have slapped him,” he said.

“It was his behavior that caused it. I’m a human being and I’m not perfect. I’m also a child of God, I’m also God’s messenger.

“Something made me angry, I’m an orphan. They’ve done something bad to my sister, they searched for me but didn’t meet me at home.

“After my mum died, she was the one who raised me but now I’m taking care of her. I had a dream that someone harmed me, then this man came to my bar on a Monday morning.”

Gospel singer Testimony Jaga had earlier given Portable a three-day ultimatum to apologise to the preacher.