{"id":252355,"date":"2025-11-09T03:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252355\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T03:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:13:14","slug":"portable-goes-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252355\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable goes back to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial singer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portable_(musician)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Habeeb Okikiola<\/a> popularly known as Portable, has announced plans to further his education.<\/p>\n<p>Despite already holding an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) from Kwara State Polytechnic, the \u201cZazu\u201d singer said additional knowledge is essential to navigating the complex business side of the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0him, his decision to go back to school is driven by a desire to take control of his music career, particularly in areas such as royalties and business deals.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cEven though I already have an OND from Kwara State Polytechnic, I still want to further my education so I can understand my music royalties and business deals better, especially for my record label, Zeh Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portable said by acquiring this knowledge, he aims to ensure that his music empire is managed effectively, and he is not solely reliant on others for guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Controversial singer Habeeb Okikiola popularly known as Portable, has announced plans to further his education. Despite already holding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,25758,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-252355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-portable","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}