{"id":857796,"date":"2025-06-24T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/police-reportedly-arrest-nigerian-rapper-ruggedman-in-lagos\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:12:08","slug":"police-reportedly-arrest-nigerian-rapper-ruggedman-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/police-reportedly-arrest-nigerian-rapper-ruggedman-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Police reportedly arrest Nigerian rapper Ruggedman in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian rapper and social activist, Michael Ugochukwu Stephens, widely known as Ruggedman, has been reportedly arrested and detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, in Lagos State. Sources reveal that his arrest is linked to issues surrounding the Performing Musicians Employers\u2019 Association of Nigeria (PMAN&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/platinumpost.news\/2025\/05\/23\/police-reportedly-arrest-nigerian-rapper-ruggedman-in-lagos\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Faith Udechukwu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian rapper and social activist, Michael Ugochukwu Stephens, widely known as Ruggedman, has been reportedly arrested and detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, in Lagos State. Sources reveal that his arrest is linked to issues surrounding the Performing Musicians Employers\u2019 Association of Nigeria (PMAN&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":857797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,52,192],"tags":[5496,5286],"class_list":{"0":"post-857796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-police","8":"category-reportedly","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-police","11":"tag-reportedly"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}