{"id":25874,"date":"2024-04-04T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=25874"},"modified":"2024-04-04T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:25:45","slug":"nathaniel-bassey-petitions-igp-over-paternity-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/04\/nathaniel-bassey-petitions-igp-over-paternity-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Bassey Petitions IGP Over Paternity Rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel singer Nathaniel Bassey has taken legal action against four individuals for alleged criminal defamation and cyberstalking after they propagated false paternity rumors involving him and a fellow gospel singer&#8217;s child.<\/p>\n<p>Bassey&#8217;s petition to the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, calls for the investigation and prosecution of the suspects: Okoronkwo Ejike, Kingsley Ibeh, Terrence Ekot, and Dj Spoiltkid.<\/p>\n<p>The petition highlights the dissemination of defamatory content on social media, where the suspects falsely implicated Bassey as the father of a child belonging to another gospel minister. Bassey&#8217;s legal team emphasized the gravity of the accusations, asserting that they constituted character assassination and contravened relevant sections of criminal and cybercrime laws.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing concern over the potential damage to Bassey&#8217;s reputation and the destabilizing effect on marriages, the petition underscores the urgency of addressing the issue to prevent further harm.<\/p>\n<p>The legal action seeks justice and serves as a deterrent against similar malicious acts on social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel singer Nathaniel Bassey has taken legal action against four individuals for alleged criminal defamation and cyberstalking after they propagated false paternity rumors involving him and a fellow gospel singer&#8217;s child. Bassey&#8217;s petition to the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, calls for the investigation and prosecution of the suspects: Okoronkwo Ejike, Kingsley Ibeh, Terrence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25892,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874\/revisions\/25892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}