{"id":74473,"date":"2025-08-28T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74473"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:49:29","slug":"lagos-police-confirm-tiktok-influencer-peller-is-safe-after-alleged-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/lagos-police-confirm-tiktok-influencer-peller-is-safe-after-alleged-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Police Confirm TikTok Influencer Peller Is Safe After Alleged Abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that TikTok influencer Habeeb Hamzat, popularly known as Peller, is safe and unharmed despite viral reports of his alleged abduction during a livestream on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin, speaking on Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief on Thursday, said preliminary investigations showed that Peller was at home and that none of his belongings were missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are investigating the allegation, but we can confirm that the person in question, Habeeb, popularly known as Peller, is at home safe and sound,\u201d Hundeyin said. \u201cHis vehicle is also intact, all his phones and properties, nothing was missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that detectives are probing whether the incident was a genuine kidnapping, a staged act, or a false alarm. \u201cThere was no violence whatsoever,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Peller, 20, was reportedly seized by armed men during a TikTok livestream, with footage showing him apparently mistaking them for security operatives before being taken away.<\/p>\n<p>The video spread rapidly online, triggering widespread concern from fans.<\/p>\n<p>The social media star, who gained prominence in 2021 with short skits and later expanded into livestreaming shows and events, remains under police watch as investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that TikTok influencer Habeeb Hamzat, popularly known as Peller, is safe and unharmed despite viral reports of his alleged abduction during a livestream on Wednesday night. Police spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin, speaking on Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief on Thursday, said preliminary investigations showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74473","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\/74473","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=74473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74475,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74473\/revisions\/74475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}