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.
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