Entertainment
How Leisure Spot Owners Promote Strip Dancing, Sex Trade
It is no gainsaying the fact
that the scramble for supremacy among leisure spot owners in Nigeria have pushed many of them to devise devious and amorous ways of attracting and keeping clients. A recent investigation by The Tide entertainment reveals that the ‘modus operandi’ of this hotel and nude club operators include engaging young girls of between 18 and 38 years of age to work for them as strippers and sex-hawkers.
The strippers dance provocatively nude to lascivious music in their bars. The strippers take turns to entertain guests, the dance steps are mostly obscene, the stripers unveil and weired style of twisting, flexing, rotating and spinning round the pole and throwing herself up before cascading upside down or slidding downward in slow motion with her legs and feet holding tight at the top pole, while her head is towards the floor like a python climbing down from an Iroko tree proudly revealing her private part by spreading her two legs wide for all to see.
The stripper further struts her breasts and yanks of her underwear with a lot of skill, she begins another form of exotic act as she rubs her body on men, performing a lap dance, which is cuddling the body to make a request while the men look in admiration as the dancer pulls off her underwear reading their private parts.
Some of the men who get aroused move behind the centre stage and engage in sexual acts with the dancers for a fee usually between N1000 and N5000, people watch the acts as the stripper mourns loudly to attract attention. The sex hawkers easily go haywire when they sight expatriate man who usually come to unwind in such hangouts. Some of the girls release all the tricks in their bag to seduce the men to have sex with them.
However, some of the patron sometimes decline having sex opting instead for the lap dance for a fee of N1000 as having sex at the VIP inner chamber is expensive, it goes as high as N15,000 just for a shot time. Most of the sex hawkers go to the extrance by having anal sex in the flirting with a customer is never a big deal for strippers because two men can share a stripper for a lap dance.
The scenes at the night clubs are bizarre and reprehensible, you pay the usual entrance fee to gain access into the open room harbouring the dance floor, once inside the building, sex hawkers in bikinis and proactive shops smile at the sight of any man in an effort to get attention. Enhance fee is some of the clubs buy drinks which are equally expensive about 9.00pm. Lasts till 5.00 am the next day over investigations reveal that this shameful practice of the nude club owners, hotellier mud other entertainment hang outs operators which is prevalent in Lagos has eroded other state capitals and their environs in the country, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Port Harcourt, the Garden City of Nigeria and home of entertainment in Nigeria, is not left out of this strip dancing saga as the practice has become a norm among. Some of the leisure spot owners in other to retain their customers and smile to the bank at the end of the day.
Some of the notorious areas in the state capital and its environs include: The GRA Axis where you have standard hotels, clubs and other exclusive hotels, clubs and other exclusive hang outs that provide unlimited raw fun to their teeming clients. Other areas include: Rumuola Junction, Hotel Presidential axis, GRA junction, Eliozu, Rukpokwu, Azikiwe Road in Mile 2 Diobu as well as other nooks and crannies of the state capital and its neighbourning towns.
In these areas, men who ordinarily look responsible swarn the frontage of hotels and other leisure spots with exotic cars and spend quality time inside the bars with the women of easy virtue, made girls and other sex hawkers display their wares obtrusively to the administration of the male customers who flood the pubs to catch fun particularly during the weekends and public holidays.
However, many residents of the state has condemned this development as unfortunate and not in our character and therefore called for restrain as it promotes immorality in the state.
Fun lovers at AY and comedy event in Port Harcourt.
Spotify yesterday revealed a significant surge in heartbreak song streams in Nigeria during the Valentine’s Day season, with a 626 percent increase between 2022 and 2024.
This was disclosed in a statement issued in Lagos, Nigeria by Spotify’s Head of Music, Sub-Saharan Africa Phiona Okumu.
Okumu said, “Spotify data reveals a surprising trend, a massive surge in heartbreak song streams.
“Nigerians are turning to their playlists to express their emotions, with a staggering 626 per cent overall growth in heartbreak streams from 2022 to 2024.
“This Valentine, the sound of love is accompanied by the sound of heartbreak, and the data shows it’s louder than ever before.”
She said on Valentine’s Day, most surprisingly, male listeners streamed heartbreak songs at a significantly higher rate than female listeners, with a 362 per cent increase compared to 169 per cent among women.
“This could suggest that men resonate with the feeling of heartbreak more and turn to music as a private outlet for processing emotions.
“Whatever the reason, one thing is clear, when love is in the air, so is heartbreak and Nigerian men are pressing play on their pain more than expected.
“While Valentine’s Day is often celebrated with grand gestures, heartbreak is a common theme on Valentine’s Day -more than what’s publicly shown,” she said.
Nigerians will join their counterparts across the world to mark the 2025 Valentine’s today.
Grammy-winning Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has joined MLS side San Diego FC’s ownership group as a club partner.
SDFC announced today that Tems joined the ownership group through her company, The Leading Vibe.
In the process, Tems became the first African woman to be involved in MLS ownership.
“We are delighted that Tems has joined San Diego FC as a club partner,” SDFC chairman Sir Mohamed Mansour said in a statement.
“Tems is a globally significant artist who will help us reach new audiences and spread the word about our unique project, which, of course, has its foundations in sub-Saharan Africa through the unique Right to Dream organisation.”
Reacting to her addition as the latest partner in SDFC’s ownership group, the singer said: “I am thrilled to join San Diego FC’s ownership group and to be part of a club that celebrates creativity, culture, and the power of community.
“Football has a unique way of bringing people together, and I am excited to help build something special in San Diego, a city that thrives on diversity and innovation.”
Fashion and beauty entrepreneur, Toyin Lawani, has claimed she is enduring back pain and that her spine is degenerating.
Lawani revealed this in a video posted on social media last Tuesday.
In the clip, she opened up about her experience with epidural anesthesia, an injection administered to pregnant women in the spine to reduce pain during childbirth.
The mother of three claimed that since receiving the injection, she has not felt like herself.
She accused doctors of not fully informing women about the long-term side effects of epidurals.
According to Lawani, she received the anesthetic injection during the birth of her last two children.
She said, “When you hear ‘epidural,’ run. Doctors tell you about the side effects but do not tell you about the long-term effects on your body. I have about three friends having the same issues that I am having.
“Like, I am just 42, how did I end up with spine issues? I have a degenerating spine. I have implants in my spine. I go paralyzed. I can’t stand for a long time. I can’t even breathe properly sometimes because it affected so many things in my body when I had the surgery.
“They will not tell you because you just want the pain to go away. I have had two epidurals. I had my first as natural birth. The last two were epidural. The last one I had epidural because I had to undergo a surgery and I had no choice.
“See, the pain does not stop. My back is killing me and my spine is degenerating.”