FG bans songs by Olamide, Davido, 9ice
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.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/fg-bans-songs-olamide-davido-9ice/
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/fg-bans-songs-olamide-davido-9ice/
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.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/fg-bans-songs-olamide-davido-9ice/
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/fg-bans-songs-olamide-davido-9ice/
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.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/fg-bans-songs-olamide-davido-9ice/
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/fg-bans-songs-olamide-davido-9ice/
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