Popular comedian and actor, Ayo Makun, known by his stage name, AY, has opened up on losing 500 million Naira to a nightclub business which did not permit smoking.

He said during a recent interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo that the nightclub crashed after a huge investment.

According to AY, his wife advised him against the decision but he refused to heed and he later regretted not listening.

He narrated how he would visit the club on Fridays but it will be empty and he did not realise that having a club where people don’t smoke is bad for that type of business.

The comedian said the reason he made it a non-smoking club was because anytime he and his wife go to clubs, she always comes back with her hair smelling of smoke.

The stand-up comedian said he was motivated to do it by the mere fact that he could fill up event centres for comedy shows.

He said:

“I woke up one day and I said to myself, ‘it’s time to open a nightclub’, ‘AY, if you can gather 6,000 people at Eko Hotel, what’s in a club that you can’t just gather 100 to 200 people buying drinks I think God just wanted me to know that ‘this one is not your calling’, ‘you are the one calling yourself’.

“It is good to have the right partner, my wife was strongly against it. I said, ‘No, it is good for networking and PR’. Shout out to all the guys who are doing it and getting it right.

“But I thought then that when I come, I am just going take all of them out of the market. It was a huge investment running to about N500 million.

“We put everything in place, the staff strength was solid, the interior was crazy and I will go there every Friday, I will look at the door and I am not seeing people coming. The opening was grand and massive. I started with a non-smoking club; I didn’t know that all these things go together.

“The wise ones will call me, and I will tell them that sometimes when I take my wife to the club when we get back her hair will be smelling of smoke, and women should have their wigs neat’. Long story short, I saw my ‘period’, it was very bad”.

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Na smoking and taking of hard drugs get Nigeria club take it or leave it..

A club without smoking

A comedian he is.

The wise ones will call me, and I will tell them that sometimes when I take my wife to the club when we get back her hair will be smelling of smoke, and women should have their wigs neat’.

See his reason for not allowing smoking in his club

SIMPathetic comedian!

People wasn't coming

Rip English

Even with the inscription "smokers are liable to die young" on several smoke packs, the smokers do not desist.

You now open a strictly "non-smoking" clubhouse & expect to see much troop ins


This must be part of his stand-up interview comedies.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

U be mumu man

Not just any type of smoke but hard drugs like,egbo,tramadol, Shisha,cocaine.
It is good that he didn't allow smoking because if ndlea bust the club,dem go say AY is a drug pusher but using comedy to cover up.

Bottom line is that, people will always place so much value on immorality over morality......

No smoking for night club? This is funnier than your comedies

It's more like a praise night

Karlifate:
Even with the inscription "smokers are liable to die young" on several smoke packs, the smokers do not desist.

You now open a strictly "non-smoking" clubhouse & expect to see much troop ins


This must be part of his stand-up interview comedies.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

No cap

Why not get business manager to manage his business. Professional business managers know exactly what to do to make it function well.

As non smoking is not working, he suppose to allow smoking.
He can just hire it to club handlers to manage it for some time with different name if needed.

Kylekent59:
People wasn't coming

Rip English

not really, that's how an American will say it. While the British will say "weren't coming."

Kylekent59:
People wasn't coming

Rip English

American English dude. Try to be versatile.

juman:
Why not get business manager to manage his business. Professional business managers know exactly what to do to make it function well.

As non smoking is not working, he suppose to allow smoking.
He can just hire it to club handlers to manage it for some time with different name if needed.

I seriously wish I can see one now. My dad opened a guest house with no sales of alcohol and cigarettes, we hardly see customers. I'm thinking of what to do

A club the customers aren't allowed to smoke?

What a contradictory statement!

You no see any other business invest in AY?

All for the grams.

Lanretoye:
Be carrying your wife and children there nah

Lol 😀,
Una too get bad mouth for dis our ogbonge Nairaland.com sha....

Sex

Weed

Alcohol.

The average Nigerian club freek is addicted to these 3 things, if you remove one of more from the list, they'll see your club like a church.

This I have seen.

Dy play
3 business move smoothly here in Nigeria

1= Smoking/ Drug business
2=Alcohol business
3=Olosho business

Any business you open and it has to do with any of the 3 above and you neglect it, consider that business dead.

Na those 3 things Nigerians dy use console their selves for these apc regime.

But I thought then that when I come, I am just going take all of them out of the market. It was a huge investment running to about N500 million.

No be only 500 MILLION,
Na 500 ZILLION.
Comedian 🤣

cunny88:
These guys are really wealthy, he doesn't even seem bothered after loosing a whole 500m investment, he must be worth billions

Dem don give dis one chop.
E chop am like indomie.....rush rush!

Keep believing everything you dey see for social media ehn?
Na over thinking go reset your brain.

I can assure you that the idiot who proposed the useless business idea to him walked away without loosing a dime of his own money!

We know you are lying but continue

sorry ooo

Less than half of businesses established actually succeed.

It's just like opening a school with no intention of education!

😂😂😂

When i made enquiry on opening a standard 5 star restaurant on the island, i was told to budget a minimum of N200m.

And problem is, there is not guarantee that it would fly after spending such an amount.

You see the word "Business" is not as easy as it seems, especially in this part of the world.

The chances of a fresh start to survive for 3yrs is like 40/100 here in Nigeria.

That is why the spirit of apprenticeship helped the igbos when it comes to business.

Non-smoking and Night club in the same sentence even sounds downright silly!

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Pictures of the empty Non smoking club abeg
I wan check something

Be carrying your wife and children there nah...and he has a brother he was supposed to help with just 1m.