{"id":347588,"date":"2017-08-24T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T11:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=347588"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:48:53","slug":"my-wo-music-video-not-banned-olamide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=347588","title":{"rendered":"My \u2018Wo\u2019 music video not banned \u2013 Olamide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A music video by renowned Nigerian artist Olamide caught the eye of the Federal Ministry of Health for allegedly violating the Tobacco Control Act.<\/p>\n<p>It is a song that will make you move your feet but it has caused some controversy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning Olamide wanted to show the lifestyle in the area he grew up, in the video for his hit song Wo.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which has close to one million views on YouTube, has a scene showing young people smoking.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Ministry of Health tweeted that this violated the country\u2019s Tobacco Control Act, and reports alleged that the song was banned by the National Broadcasting Commission.<\/p>\n<p>But a spokesperson for the commission has confirmed to the BBC that there was never a ban on the music video.<\/p>\n<p>And Olamide retweeted a tweet to this effect:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-347595\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Olamide.jpg\" alt=\"olamide\" width=\"548\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Olamide has edited his video with a tobacco health warning and an age restriction on television.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-347594\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Olamide-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"olamide-1\" width=\"536\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A music video by renowned Nigerian artist Olamide caught the eye of the Federal Ministry of Health for allegedly violating the Tobacco Control Act. It is a song that will make you move your feet but it has caused some controversy in Nigeria. The award-winning Olamide wanted to show the lifestyle in the area he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":347599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[10486,10487,10488],"class_list":["post-347588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-banned-songs","tag-nigeria-music","tag-olamide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}