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.
The commision says the banned songs allegedly violates its rules and regulations. Olamide’s song, WO was said to promote the inappropriate use of tobacco. This can be assumed from the reaction of the Federal Ministry of Health last Friday towards the song’s music video which they described its content as contravening the Tobacco Control Act of 2015.
The Ministry of Health 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.
The rapper popularly known as Baddosneh said on Tuesday, in reaction to the ban that he never intended to cause harm to fans with the song. He said he has no intentions of promoting tobacco to get people killed, that he loves his people and his nation.
Also, before the ban on 9ice’s song: Living Things, the song had been called upon by fellow artist, Falz, who urged Nigerian musicians, in general, to be mindful of the kind of messages that they passed to the public in their songs.
Falz mentioned that artists who saw nothing wrong about glorifying Internet fraud, drugs and other anti-social behaviour are not doing the society any good.
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