The National Broadcasting Corporation, NBC,
has banned five songs by Olamide, Davido and
9ice, having considered them offensive for
broadcast, according to online portal,
Premium Times.
The banned songs are Olamide‘s “Wo” and
“Wavy Level“; Davido‘s “Fall” and “If (Remix)“;
and 9ice’s “Living Things.”
The corporation released the list yesterday,
saying it banned the five songs from being
aired across the Nigerian airwaves.
The Federal Ministry of Health had in a tweet
on Friday, said the video to Olamide’s “Wo”
violated the Tobacco Control Act 2015.
The 28-year-old rapper, who is signed to his
own record label, YBNL, had returned to Ladi
Lak in Bariga where he was raised to shoot
the video of his latest single.
“This is our position: video contravenes the
act. Innocently or otherwise, Tobacco
Promotion Advertising Sponsorship is banned
in all forms,” the NBC said.
It could not immediately ascertain why the
songs of the two other musicians were
banned.
In June this year, the federal government,
through the Ministry of Health, had launched
a campaign to ban smoking in public places,
including motor parks, shopping malls and
health care centres.
The Health Ministry, in a communiqué, said
according to Section 9 of the Nigeria Tobacco
Control Act 2015, once convicted, offenders
are liable to a fine of at least N50, 000 and/or
six months’ imprisonment.
Tweeting the information via its official Twitter
page, the Ministry claimed that the video,
which features ghetto scenes in which youth
are seen smoking, encouraged second-hand
smoking.
This is not the first time that an Olamide song
will be banned by the regulatory agency. In
2016, just a few months after the ban of one
of his songs, ‘Shakiti Bobo’, NBC also banned,
‘Don’t Stop’ which is a track off Olamide’s 5th
studio album, Eyan Mayweather, for its vulgar
lyrics.
Defending the decision at the time, the NBC
said the song was banned from being played
on the airwaves for its ‘obscenity, being
indecent, vulgar languages, lewd and profane
expressions like ‘wa gba ponron’, ‘I just want
to hit you now’, ‘je kin wo be…”
Rapper Falz had also in June, criticized
Nigerian musicians who glamourised fraud
with their lyrics, a criticism fans took to be
directed at 9ice for “Living Things.”
The actor and rapper stated that the recent
trend of hailing Internet fraudsters in music is
not helping future generations as the young
ones are beginning to see this as a normal
way of life.
He recounted the personal experience of
challenges faced by Nigerians in other
countries as a result of cyber crime.
“No person shall engage or participate in any
tobacco advertising, promotion or sponsorship
as a media or event organizer, celebrity or
other participant,” it read.
According to the 2015 law, anyone who
violates the law faces the risk of a fine and jail
term of not more than one year.
Persons that produce or publish advertising,
promotion or sponsorship content shall attract
a fine of not less than N3,000,000 and a term
of imprisonment of not more than one year.
If the tenets of the tobacco-control act are
followed to the latter, then the rapper is at risk
of N3 million fine, one-year jail term over ‘Wo’
video.
Source: vanguardngr
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