{"id":1150,"date":"2023-03-31T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2023-03-31T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:40:18","slug":"just-in-police-arrest-portable-after-72-hour-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/31\/just-in-police-arrest-portable-after-72-hour-ultimatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in: Police arrest portable after 72-hour ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Ogun State police command has arrested famous singer, Habeeb Okikiola, commonly called Portable, who had earlier refused to honour the police invitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recall that earlier on Tuesday, two videos of the musician raining curses and rough-handling some men of the Nigeria police surfaced on the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Portable\u2019s arrest is coming after the police gave a 72-hour ultimatum to the singer, which elapses today, Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The police had condemned the singer\u2019s actions also threatened to prosecute him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Portable had claimed that an internet fraudster had brought the police to his bar to arrest staff members \u201cfor no reason.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But the police noted that it acted on a petition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Speaking on the development, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed that the singer has been arrested and currently cooling his feet at the state headquarters of the police in Eleweran, Abeokuta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr Oyeyemi further said the Zazu crooner was arrested after refusing five invitations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was also gathered that the singer will remain in police custody till Monday when he will be charged in court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ogun State police command has arrested famous singer, Habeeb Okikiola, commonly called Portable, who had earlier refused to honour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainments-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}