{"id":3490,"date":"2026-09-07T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:56:17","slug":"portable-alleges-musicians-with-%e2%82%a6500m-are-likely-involved-in-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/2026\/09\/07\/portable-alleges-musicians-with-%e2%82%a6500m-are-likely-involved-in-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable Alleges Musicians With \u20a6500m Are Likely Involved in Money Laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3492\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FB_IMG_1788777464830-1-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FB_IMG_1788777464830-1-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FB_IMG_1788777464830-1-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FB_IMG_1788777464830-1-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FB_IMG_1788777464830-1.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><br \/>\nControversial Nigerian singer Portable has stirred fresh debate after claiming that it is unrealistic for a musician to have N500 million in their bank account solely from music.<\/p>\n<p>According to the singer, many musicians with such huge sums are allegedly involved in money laundering and cartel related businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not possible for a musician to have N500M in his account.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these musicians are into money laundering and cartel businesses,\u201d Portable said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3491\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HRcGjv2WYAA300O-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HRcGjv2WYAA300O-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HRcGjv2WYAA300O-706x1024.jpg 706w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HRcGjv2WYAA300O-768x1114.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HRcGjv2WYAA300O-1059x1536.jpg 1059w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HRcGjv2WYAA300O.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Portable&#8217;s statement came amid the circulation of a screenshot purportedly showing Nigerian rapper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikpidia.com\/zlatan\">Zlatan\u2019s<\/a> bank account details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Controversial Nigerian singer Portable has stirred fresh debate after claiming that it is unrealistic for a musician to have N500 million in their bank account solely from music. According to the singer, many musicians with such huge sums are allegedly involved in money laundering and cartel related businesses. \u201cIt\u2019s not possible for a musician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}