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.

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Funke Akindele-Oloyede, Afeez Oyetoro and Patience Ozokwor dazzle in A Wish

Popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele-
Oloyede, Nollywood veteran, Patience
Ozokwor and lecturer cum actor, Afeez
Oyetoro (Saka) dazzle in this unusual
Nollywood movie titled A Wish, from award
winning filmmaker and actor, Elvis Chucks.
A Wish is an unusual hilarious comedy which
features an unusual slew of impressive cast,
names such as Chris Okagbue (Gulder
Ultimate Search 8 winner), Helen Paul
(Tatafo), Bishop Imeh, Kola Olaiya and others.
Elvis Chucks is an actor and filmmaker, he
once took part in the award winning family
drama, Super Story series and also starred in
several Nollywood movies before venturing
into the film making world. He has two
movies under his belt as a filmmaker; True
Citizens which featured former Big Brother
Winner, Uti Nwachukwu and Victims of the
Society, an advocacy flick which featured
veteran actress, Joke Silva. True Citizens and
Victims of the Society have both been
nominated for several awards in Abuja,
Durban and Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Incidentally, the top stars of the movie, A
Wish are Brand Ambassadors in their own
rights and enjoy a huge share of popularity in
their respective domains. Other members of
cast include; Iyke Ogbonna and Clara Iweh.
The movie is supported by Close up, Lifebuoy,
Blue Band, Genevieve, Unilever, Lipton, Onga,
Cool FM, Wazobia FM, Nigeria Info FM and
OMO. The movie is scheduled to premiere on
Saturday, December 1, 2012 while the
cinema release has been slated for Friday,
December 7, 2012.

Why They Broke Up (D'Banj And Don Jazzy); Plus Dr SID's Ambition

Greed, personal ambition, quest to be popular
ahead of others are some of the factors that led
to the "untimely" collapse of the Mo'Hits Records
group, an audio conversation has revealed.
Just when we were thinking the D’banj versus
Don Jazzy saga was ending, yet another
controversy has come up; this time former
Mo’Hits-now-MAVIN act, Dr SID, plays the leading
role in the ‘never-ending’ controversy.
Further findings have revealed that Mo'Hits
collapsed because the small boys in the house,
Dr Sid in particular, wanted to grow faster than
his shadow and might have indirectly pushed
Don Jazzy into taking some wrong decisions.
A secret recording which has leaked is now
giving a little more insight as to why the former
‘super group’ broke up with bosses – D’banj and
Don Jazzy parting ways.
Dr SID in the recording,was heard talking in a
rather upset tone about how D’banj’s personality
was over-shining his and the rest of the crew
members.
"Why don’t they know my name? Because your
brand and star is too much. It is overshadowing",
Dr SID angrily said in the recording.
Young singer, Davido, who was part of the
discussion, however had another opinion; he
argued back and forth with Dr SID, explaining
that it was D’banj that actually brought Dr SID
and others to the limelight.
"Guuuy, it’s not that, D’banj can help anybody,
….If not for D’banj nobody would have looked at
Wande, guy I dey lie?" Davido stressed.
However,it is a well known fact that Dr
SID and D’banj have been having inside brawls
even though he (D’banj) was the one that
brought Dr SID into Mo’Hits.
Several sources insist Dr SID was one of the
persons who engineered the Mo’Hits split and he
wanted to always be as big as D’banj. Wande
was content as the fan favourite, D’Prince is okay
as long as his elder brother makes the money

Gunmen kill Worshipers at Nigeria Mosque

Gunmen have opened fire on Muslim worshipers
as they were leaving a mosque in northern
Nigeria, killing at least 20 people, a local official
said.
The attack on Sunday happened in a remote
village called Dogo Dawa, in Kaduna state, said
Abdullahi Muhammad, the traditional ruler and
councillor of Birnin Gwari, a local government area
next to the village.
The state police commissioner Olufemi Adenaike
confirmed the incident, but did not give a death
toll. There was no immediate claim of
responsibility for the attack.
Like much of northern Nigeria, Kaduna is plagued
by an insurgency led by radical Islamist sect Boko
Haram. They usually attack security forces,
government officials or Christians, but have hit
Muslim clerics and mosques in the past, especially
ones that do not follow their brand of Islam.
Kaduna also lies close to Nigeria's volatile "Middle
Belt", where Nigeria's mostly Muslim north and
largely Christian south
meet, and where tensions over land and ethnicity
often erupt into violence.
But Abdulladhi said the attack was most likely
carried out by a local criminal gang.
"We are suspecting a reprisal attack by gangs of
armed robbers who lost some of their members
after a recent exchange
of fire with the villagers and the vigilantes," he
said.
"The village had been terrorised by an armed
group operating from camps in the forest. These
armed men mostly attack villages and motorists
along the busy Kaduna to Lagos highway."
The Islamist insurgency in northern Nigeria and
weapons flooding in from its neighbours on the
threshold of the Sahara
have aggravated levels of violence in the region.
Armed robberies and local disputes degenerating
into deadly shootouts are increasingly common
across the impoverished north.

Soldier Killed Student For Trying To Be A Gentleman

Emmanuel Papa Ebonyi dreamt of a great
future. A future where he would pass his
examinations in flying colours, have a great
job and support his siblings who had always
been there for him. Unfortunately, all these
dreams were terminated when a soldier
snuffed life out of him just because he tried
to be a Good Samaritan.
His sister Felicia Samuel Ebonyi tells the story in
tears. "The unfortunate incident happened in the
early hours of 9th August. On that day, my
brother, a Higher National Diploma I (HND I)
student of Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria,
Kaduna State met his untimely death in the
hands of one Captain Olufela Doyin Erizia."
"My brother was in the company of his friends
and they visited Mate Bar Night Club, PZ
Sabongari area of Zaria on the night of the
previous day to celebrate the birthday of a friend.
That was where he met Captain Olufela D. Erizia
and his friends."
Everything went well for a while. But suddenly,
there was a quarrel between Erizia and his
girlfriend. Ebonyi intervened warning Erizia
against fighting with his girlfriend. That
unfortunately turned out to be a grievous offence
in Erizia's dictionary. Infuriated, he took the laws
into his hands beating Ebonyi black and blue.
"He beat up my brother until he was half dead.
Along the line his friends rescued him from the
soldier and were trying to leave the premises, but
he (Erizia) still chased them and was struggling
with the driver of the vehicle. If Ebonyi had
known the calamity that would befall him, he
would not stop Erizia from fighting his girlfriend,
but his sympathy for the womenfolk landed him
in an unexpected grave."
Sadly, Felicia continues her story: "When the
incident happened, one of my brother's friends
called me on phone and asked me to come over.
They took us to the barracks and I met another
eye witness. It was not the soldier's girlfriend, it
was another girl. The girlfriend actually ran away
and I have been trying to get her to come and tell
her side of the story."
"Our parents are both late. I have four other
siblings and they are all very sad about the
development. He is the second to the last born in
the family. We used to have an elder sister who
died in 2007. She was ill and initially the ailment
was diagnosed as typhoid. It was later discovered
that it was hepatitis and her death was quite
painful."
Erizia was apprehended, taken for questioning
and interrogations after which he was taken to
the Area Command Police Station, Zaria.
"However, nothing has been heard ever since,"
Felicia says. "We have been kept in the dark on
this issue because not only did they refuse to
hand over the man to the police authorities but
also did not have courtesy to say a word. Sources
at the barracks were even saying that he had
been posted to another duty beat. It is on this
basis that we are calling on the Military HQ, well-
meaning Nigerians, human rights activists to see
to this matter and make sure that Erizia is
brought to book."
According to Sadau Garba of the Kaduna Human
Rights Association: "The offence of the late Ebonyi
was that he pleaded with Capt Erizia not to
manhandle a lady he jerked up and molested.
After mercilessly beating Ebonyi, a friend, one
Femi David, rushed him to Salama Hospital,
Sabongari, Zaria and they directed that he should
be taken to Shika Teaching Hospital due to the
critical condition. It was on the way to Shika that
Emmanuel gave up the ghost."
Sadau Garba added that "the family members of
the late Ebonyi have made several visits to the
Kaduna State Police Command headquarters, but
the authorities of the Army Barracks, Zaria, are
not willing to release the said Captain Erizia to the
police to investigate this inhuman, barbaric and
dastardly act."
DSP Aminu Lawal, the Police Public Relations
Officer in Kaduna confirmed the case saying
investigation was in progress. He also said, "The
authorities of the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria
could not ascertain if Ebonyi was a student of the
institution."