For strip clubs owners, especially Club Unique, Ikeja, Lagos, which still parades young ladies who dance nude to the delight of its teeming patrons, it is no longer business as usual.
he club, which was re-opened early last year by the State House of Assembly in Lagos, after it was shut down alongside three other notorious clubs is presently witnessing a dull moment. The situation has necessitated the management of the club to embark on an awareness campaign to win back most of its run-away patrons.
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A visit to the club last week revealed this much. Despite the seeming changes that have taken place at the club in terms of identity and structure, the fact remains that business has not kicked off properly at the club, more than a year after it was reopened.
The club, situated along Ogundana street, just off the high brow Allen Avenue, in Ikeja, consists of a single hall and bars which were clustered nearly everyday in the past by dozens of guests.
Its present predicament stems from the fact that many of the patrons of the night club are skeptical, in respect of the possible raiding of the place again by the special Lagos State Task Force on environment.
Saturday Vanguard observed while at the night club that skimpily dressed go-go dancers, whose regular performances are the major attraction of the night club, were entertaining few a audience, as against what it used to be in the recent past, when prominent Nigerians thronged the popular club to feed their eyes on the tender bodies of these young dancers.
Before the closure, the daily shows usually would start around 8 p m and would get to its crescendo around 11 p.m when the hall would be filled to the brim. The belly dancers covered their bodies with only panties and would gradually undress as they danced around a pole. But this is no longer obtainable as the club is presently witnessing a dull moment.
Mr Tony Ojo, owner of the club, has every reason to blame the recent challenges facing the club on the unmitigated closure. The club, according to Ojo, was recently duped over N28 million following a property it purchased within the neighbourood and which later, turned out to be a property in dispute.
“It is not an easy task to convince our customers to come back. We need to create a lot of awareness and to convince them that all is well. That’s why it has become necessary that we engage the services of the media to reach out to our numerous customers. For now, business has been very slow,” Ojo narrated.
Lamenting that since the club was reopened early last year, business has been very slow, the Edo State born club owner said, “we have been trying as much as possible to enure that we win back our customers. We are still struggling to get back to our feet.”
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