{"id":21066,"date":"2026-01-13T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21066\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:12:09","slug":"portable-arraigned-remanded-over-car-theft-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21066\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable arraigned, remanded over car theft, assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, was arraigned before the Federal High Court in Ota, <a href=\"https:\/\/ogunstate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ogun State<\/a>, on Monday over a nine-count criminal charge.<\/p>\n<p>The charges include assault, theft, causing bodily harm, and resisting arrest, stemming from an incident at his bar in the Iyana Ilogbo area on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Portable allegedly attacked his estranged partner, Ashabi Simple, and several police officers, including a female inspector, Ogungbe Olayemi.<\/p>\n<p>Other alleged victims named in the charge sheet include Ileyemi Damilola, Akinyanju Oluwabusayomi, Olowu Olumide, Demilade Ogunniyi, and Ebuka Odah. <\/p>\n<p>He also faced accusations of stealing a N12 million Mercedes-Benz E300 belonging to Ileyemi Damilola.<\/p>\n<p>Two siblings of Ashabi Simple testified as witnesses, though she was absent from court.<\/p>\n<p>The judge declined to grant Portable bail, citing the absence of the allegedly assaulted police officer, and remanded him in custody until January 19.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command said it is investigating a viral video showing Portable being assaulted while in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Controversial singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, was arraigned before the Federal High Court in Ota, Ogun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[122,13154],"class_list":{"0":"post-21066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-nigeria","9":"tag-portable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}