The Growth of Strip Clubs in Lagos.

A strip or nude club is an adult
entertainment venue or a night club
where stripteases or other erotic or
exotic dances are regularly performed.
A strip club is run like a night club or
bar, but it can also adopt a theatre or
cabaret form.
A strip or nude club is an adult
entertainment venue or a night club where
stripteases or other erotic or exotic dances
are regularly performed. A strip club is run
like a night club or bar, but it can also adopt
a theatre or cabaret form.
This kind of club, no doubt is gradually
making its way into many towns and cities in
Nigeria and with increasing patronage by
different sets of people.
Efforts by various governments, especially
the Lagos State government to rid towns
and cities of these strip clubs have met a
brick wall as the operators of such
businesses are back with little or no
moderation to the usual practice.
The government, while attempting to bring a
little sanity to the city’s night life once raided
the strip clubs in the Ikeja axis of Lagos
State and arrested the strippers. But the
operators reacted by charging the
government to court.
This incident generated a lot of issues and
divided the public who held different
opinions on the business.
Investigations carried out recently revealed
that the operators of strip clubs are back in
business and are carrying out activities there
in a manner which obviously gives them an
edge over ordinary night clubs in terms of
patronage.
Scattered all over Lagos mainland are strip/
nude clubs like Cazz bar, Club Unique, Wall
Street bar, Cave Exclusive and Ocean Blue.
A visit to the Cazz bar on Opebi road, Ikeja
on a Friday night was an experience always
fresh in the mind of these reporters.
After paying an entrance fee of N3,000.00
one is entitled to enjoy the ambience where
most of the strippers are beautiful white girls
‘imported’ into the country to entertain and
meet the audience’s different needs.
The girls who have their bodies scantily covered
with g-string pants and bras took a pole-dancing
position and when charged, they discarded of the
scanty clothings on them and danced naked
performing also the lap-dance for any patron who
was willing to give them a tip.
Further investigations revealed that there is a VIP
section where you pay an entrance fee of
N10,000.00 which entitles you to have anything
on demand free.
The Cazz bar regulation states that a patron who
is willing to go home with one of its strippers will
wait till 5:000 a.m (which is the closing time) and
pay the management while leaving his phone
number and address for security reasons.
At the Cazz Bar it is stated that each of the
strippers collects N75,000.00 per week excluding
accommodation and feeding.
The practice at the Cave Exclusive in GRA, Ikeja is
a little different compared to that of Cazz Bar.
At the Cave Exclusive, the entrance fee is
N5,000.00. What makes the operations of Cave
Exclusive different from others is that not only
that the strippers are scantily clad, the bar
attendants who are mostly ladies move around
and attend to patrons in their underwears.
altThe environment speaks s..ex and you won’t
fail to catch a glimpse of couples engaged in one
sexual act or the other and with no damn given
to prying eyes.
One of the attendants who spoke to the reporters
claimed she wasn’t initially aware that the rule is
that attendants also will work in their underwears.
she said she discovered this on her first day at
work and that she was planning to quit anytime
from now as she wasn’t comfortable with the
practice.
On further questioning, she claimed her take-
home pay in a month is N25,000.00 and she feels
she shouldn’t be subjected to such a treatment
for that amount as customers are free to touch
and make passes at her, while the management
expects her to smile back at them.
The Cave Exclusive which has been running for
over three years records a huge patronage on
Fridays as fun-seekers throng the hangout to
enjoy what they offer.
The operation in other strip bars is not different
and it attracts patrons who are willing to part
with any amount of money as long as they are
satisfied.
Strip and nude bar operation is said to have
started in Lagos in the 90’s. Then, some
hangouts in Apapa used to bring in ladies who
were used in meeting the sexual needs of
European sailors who often visited the hangout
while on trips to Lagos.
The operation gradually gained ground and has
now become fully rooted with quite a large
number of nightclubs in existence.
A trip round the city of Lagos revealed that
virtually every nook and cranny of this city has
this strip and nude club due to the commercial
gains derived from them.
Teenagers and young ladies see the club as an
avenue to make money not considering the
consequences of their action.
It was also gathered that top businessmen and
politicians catch fun, but they choose to do that
in hangouts that operate strictly by membership.
A strip bar owner in Lagos is said to rake in
between N5m and N10m every month depending
on the location and patronage.
A usual strip club is open everyday for business,
but has Wednesdays and Fridays as its special
days.
Many had thought that the Lagos state
government would win the battle to curb, if not
stop this business, while some opine that it’s a
business that has come to stay whether the
government likes it or not.