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Less than 24 hours after the National Broadcasting Commission banned one of his recent songs, Wo, among others, from being played on the airwaves, popular rapper, Olamide Adedeji, has said that he never intended to cause harm to music fans with the song.

The rapper, popularly called Olamide, on Tuesday tweeted, “No intentions of promoting tobacco to get people killed. I love my people, I love my country. One love, one Nigeria.”

The NBC, on Tuesday, placed a ban on works by three of Nigeria’s top level music artistes for an alleged violation of its rules and regulations.

It named Olamide’s Wo and Wavi Level; a remix of Davido’s If and 9ice’s Living Things as the culprits in a current list of banned songs and music videos that it released to the public.

Although the commission did not give specific reasons for banning the songs, the decision may have been influenced by a recent reaction from the Federal Ministry of Health to the music video of Olamide’s new song.

Last Friday, in a message posted on Twitter, the ministry kicked against the video of Wo, released a few days ago and described the content as contravening the Tobacco Control Act of 2015.

The Ministry of Health also noted that the video contained scenes showing youths of different ages openly smoking substances believed to be either cigarettes or narcotics and concluded that such scenes could encourage second-hand smoking among underage children anywhere in the country.

However, this is the third time that the NBC has brought down its hammer on a popular song by Olamide.

The last time was 2016, when two other songs by the rapper were slammed for what the commission described as “obscene and indecent” lyrics.

Also, before the ban on 9ice’s Living Things, the song had been fingered as the subject of a statement by fellow rapper Falz, which urged Nigerian musicians in general to be mindful of the kind of messages that they passed to the public in their songs.

Falz had appeared to be genuinely concerned about the impact of such messages on the youth. He pointed out that artistes who saw nothing wrong about glorifying Internet fraud, drugs and other anti-social behaviour were not doing the society any good.

SOURCE: http://punchng.com/nbc-bans-olamide-davido-9ices-songs/amp/

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NBC should listen more to those songs and party with them jareee. They are singing what majority of Nigerian wants

Na today ?

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Before a song is released into the society, i expect NBC officials to listen to it first and then decide if it is suitable or not...but here they ban after such songs have enjoyed massive downloads and play at clubs. Common sense is not common in Nigeria

First to comment.

Oh

Long story.. After making money from it

hmmm

this is as good as not banning the song because the main stations where we will still hear the songs are allowed to play it . it stations that we don't even tune to that will not play it nonsense.

Mtcheew


We go soon ban NBC itself.

Nobe small tin.........

song wey go don dey everywhere..

igbayi laaro won.........NBC weh no knw wehtin dem dey do....

You ban songs, yet people still watch it on MTV base, trace, soundcity et al.

Even the DVDs and CDs are available everywhere.



Or these NBC guys thinks people still watch ITV benin and EBS?

Jobless People

yes that Davido's song IF
My little brother have been asking me what is "Chuku chuku"

ok

What's my business

Na there problem be dt o

They always have a way to distract us.

NBC should go and sleep or jump inside lagoon

Buhari is a lover of poverty useless terrorists

NBC cant ban the songs on the internet so...more views for the songs.

Who listens to radio or watch local TV nowadays anyway?

What is this?

R

Lol.... Is it not their songs Senator Adeleke and others never found fault in, but dances to the tunes. Good morning Nigeria in moral upbringing

at olamide
Even after that mumu video....

mtchew....what's the essense of d ban, when it has already spread out like fire mtchew....what's the essense of d ban, when it has already spread out like fire

This is very old news nah