{"id":61627,"date":"2025-02-20T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61627"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:15:40","slug":"court-grants-singer-portable-%e2%82%a62-million-bail-in-ogun-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/20\/court-grants-singer-portable-%e2%82%a62-million-bail-in-ogun-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants Singer Portable \u20a62 Million Bail in Ogun State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has been granted bail by the Isabo Magistrate Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State, following his arraignment on a five-count charge, including conspiracy, assault, obstruction, possession of weapons, and conduct likely to cause public harm.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from a February 5 incident in which Portable allegedly led an attack on Ogun State Ministry of Physical Planning officials inspecting a property in Ota.<\/p>\n<p>After evading multiple police invitations, he was declared wanted before his eventual arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Portable\u2019s lawyer, Oluwatoyin Ayodele, pleaded for bail, arguing that the singer had shown remorse.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate O. L. Oke granted bail at \u20a62 million with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case to March 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Portable could face up to 20 years in prison. His associates, also facing similar charges, were granted bail and will appear in court on March 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke\u00a0 Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has been granted bail by the Isabo Magistrate Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State, following his arraignment on a five-count charge, including conspiracy, assault, obstruction, possession of weapons, and conduct likely to cause public harm. The charges stem from a February 5 incident in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61627","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61629,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61627\/revisions\/61629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}