{"id":63169,"date":"2025-03-22T19:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63169"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:57:01","slug":"mohbads-death-probe-naira-marley-testifies-as-court-summons-sam-larry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/22\/mohbads-death-probe-naira-marley-testifies-as-court-summons-sam-larry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohbad\u2019s Death Probe: Naira Marley Testifies as Court Summons Sam Larry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian singer Naira Marley has testified at the Coroner\u2019s inquest into the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, denying any involvement in the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking virtually before a Magistrate Court in Ikorodu, Marley insisted there were no disputes between him and Mohbad, claiming their record label contract remained unfulfilled due to disagreements with the singer\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed allegations of threats or harassment, citing a police report that cleared him.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mohbad\u2019s lawyer, Oluwasanmi Falade, challenged Marley\u2019s statements, confirming a dispute over unpaid royalties and recounting an alleged attack on Mohbad at Lekki Beach by music promoter Sam Larry.<\/p>\n<p>Following these revelations, Magistrate Adedayo Shotobi ordered Sam Larry to appear before the court on April 11.<\/p>\n<p>The court also requested the pathologist\u2019s autopsy report and summoned Mohbad\u2019s driver as a witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai Nigerian singer Naira Marley has testified at the Coroner\u2019s inquest into the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, denying any involvement in the tragedy. Speaking virtually before a Magistrate Court in Ikorodu, Marley insisted there were no disputes between him and Mohbad, claiming their record label contract remained unfulfilled due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63169","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=63169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63171,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63169\/revisions\/63171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}