A strip or nude club is an adult
entertainment venue or a night club
where stripteases or other erotic or
exotic dances are regularly
performed. A strip club is run like a
night club or bar, but it can also
adopt a theatre or cabaret form.
This club, no doubt is gradually
making its way into many towns and
cities in Nigeria and with increasing
patronage by different sets of people.
Efforts by various governments,
especially the Lagos State government
to rid towns and cities of these strip
clubs have met a brick wall as the
operators of such businesses are back
with little or no moderation to the
usual practice.
The government, while attempting to
bring a little sanity to the city’s night
life once raided the strip clubs in the
Ikeja axis of Lagos State and arrested
the strippers. But the operators
reacted by charging the government
to court.
This incident generated a lot of issues
and divided the public who held
different opinions on the business.
Investigations carried out recently
revealed that the operators of strip
clubs are back in business and are
carrying out activities there in a
manner which obviously gives them
an edge over ordinary night clubs in
terms of patronage.
Scattered all over Lagos mainland are
strip/nude clubs like Cazz bar, Club
Unique, Wall Street bar, Cave Exclusive
and Ocean Blue.
A visit to the Cazz bar on Opebi road,
Ikeja on a Friday night was an
experience always fresh in the mind
of these reporters.
After paying an entrance fee of
N3,000.00 one is entitled to enjoy the
ambience where most of the strippers
are beautiful white girls ‘imported’ into
the country to entertain and meet the
audience’s different needs.
The girls who have their bodies
scantily covered with g-string pants
and bras took a pole-dancing position
and when charged, they discarded of
the scanty clothings on them and
danced naked performing also the
lap-dance for any patron who was
willing to give them a tip.
Further investigations revealed that
there is a VIP section where you pay
an entrance fee of N10,000.00 which
entitles you to have anything on
demand free.
The Cazz bar regulation states that a
patron who is willing to go home with
one of its strippers will wait till 5:000
a.m (which is the closing time) and
pay the management while leaving his
phone number and address for
security reasons.
At the Cazz Bar it is stated that each of
the strippers collects N75,000.00 per
week excluding accommodation and
feeding.
The practice at the Cave Exclusive in
GRA, Ikeja is a little different
compared to that of Cazz Bar.
At the Cave Exclusive, the entrance fee
is N5,000.00. What makes the
operations of Cave Exclusive different
from others is that not only that the
strippers are scantily clad, the bar
attendants who are mostly ladies
move around and attend to patrons in
their underwears.
The environment speaks sex and you
won’t fail to catch a glimpse of
couples engaged in one sexual act or
the other and with no damn given to
prying eyes.
One of the attendants who spoke to
the reporters claimed she wasn’t
initially aware that the rule is that
attendants also will work in their
underwears. she said she discovered
this on her first day at work and that
she was planning to quit anytime
from now as she wasn’t comfortable
with the practice.
On further questioning, she claimed
her take-home pay in a month is
N25,000.00 and she feels she
shouldn’t be subjected to such a
treatment for that amount as
customers are free to touch and make
passes at her, while the management
expects her to smile back at them.
The Cave Exclusive which has been
running for over three years records a
huge patronage on Fridays as fun-
seekers throng the hangout to enjoy
what they offer.
The operation in other strip bars is
not different and it attracts patrons
who are willing to part with any
amount of money as long as they are
satisfied.
Strip and nude bar operation is said
to have started in Lagos in the 90’s.
Then, some hangouts in Apapa used
to bring in ladies who were used in
meeting the sexual needs of
European sailors who often visited the
hangout while on trips to Lagos.
The operation gradually gained
ground and has now become fully
rooted with quite a large number of
nightclubs in existence.
A trip round the city of Lagos revealed
that virtually every nook and cranny of
this city has this strip and nude club
due to the commercial gains derived
from them.
Teenagers and young ladies see the
club as an avenue to make money not
considering the consequences of their
action.
It was also gathered that top
businessmen and politicians catch
fun, but they choose to do that in
hangouts that operate strictly by
membership. A strip bar owner in
Lagos is said to rake in between N5m
and N10m every month depending
on the location and patronage.
A usual strip club is open everyday for
business, but has Wednesdays and
Fridays as its special days.
Many had thought that the Lagos state
government would win the battle to
curb, if not stop this business, while
some opine that it’s a business that
has come to stay whether the
government likes it or not.
Source: Tribune
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