{"id":74425,"date":"2025-08-28T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74425"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:39:28","slug":"osun-govt-awaits-u-s-court-record-on-apetumodus-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/osun-govt-awaits-u-s-court-record-on-apetumodus-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Osun Govt Awaits U.S. Court Record on Apetumodu\u2019s Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Osun State Government says it will obtain the Certified True Copy (CTC), of the U.S. court judgment that sentenced the Apetumodu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede, to prison over a multimillion-dollar COVID-19 relief fund fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Oba Oloyede, 62, a dual Nigerian-American citizen, was sentenced to 56 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $4,408,543.38 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>He also forfeited his Medina, Ohio, residence and an additional $96,006.89 linked to fraudulent transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch was convicted of conspiring to exploit COVID-19 emergency loan programmes for small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Osun Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Dosu Babatunde, said the state would rely on official court documents, not social media reports, before deciding on next steps.<\/p>\n<p>In Ipetumodu, calm prevailed, with local chiefs meeting privately to discuss the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Osun State Government says it will obtain the Certified True Copy (CTC), of the U.S. court judgment that sentenced the Apetumodu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede, to prison over a multimillion-dollar COVID-19 relief fund fraud. Oba Oloyede, 62, a dual Nigerian-American citizen, was sentenced to 56 months in prison, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74427,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425\/revisions\/74427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}