Singer, Eedris Abdulkareem’s track, ‘Inform Your Papa’, has been barred from being aired on all Nigerian radio and tv stations.
The ban on the singer’s track was declared by the Nationwide Broadcasting Fee (NBC) on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
Citing the track’s “objectionable nature”, the Coordinating Director of Broadcast Monitoring, Susan Obi in a memo to radio and tv stations stated the NBC has declared the observe, Not To Be Broadcast (NTBB).
In keeping with Obi, the NTBB slammed on the Abdulkareem’s track is according to Part 3.1.8 of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.
Obi stated that the NBC code prohibits each content material seen as inappropriate, offensive, or in breach of public decency from being aired on broadcast stations throughout the nation.
She additionally stated that the track’s lyrical content material fails to fulfill the requirements of accountable broadcasting.
Obi stated, “The fee requests that your station workouts discretion and refrains from airing this track to keep up accountable broadcasting requirements.
“Your cooperation and dedication to upholding tremendously appreciated. Thanks, Susan Obi -Coordinating Director, Broadcast Monitoring,” Obi stated within the memo.
Regardless of the ban by the NBC, Abdulkareem’s track, “Inform Your Papa,” which was launched earlier in the course of the week has continued to realize traction on numerous social media platform.
The singer within the track delivered to limelight, the challenges and hardship suffered by Nigerians for the reason that assumption of workplace by President Bola Tinubu.
Within the track, Abdulkareem whereas reacting to Seyi Tinubu’s feedback throughout his tour of Northern states – the place he described his father as Nigeria’s biggest president – urged the president’s son to inform his father that the individuals are struggling.
The singer sang, “Seyi, inform your papa nation exhausting. Inform your papa individuals dey die. Inform your papa this one don cross jagajaga.”
“Seyi, how far? I swear your papa no attempt. An excessive amount of empty guarantees. On behalf of Nigerians, take our message to him; kidnappers dey kill Nigerians,” Abdulkareem sang.