The Nationwide Broadcasting Fee (NBC) has banned the protest tune Inform Your Papa by veteran rapper Eedris Abdulkareem from being performed on radio and tv throughout Nigeria.
The ban was introduced in a memo dated Wednesday, April 9, 2025, and signed by the Fee’s Coordinating Director of Broadcast Monitoring, Susan Obi.
Based on the NBC, the monitor was flagged for holding “objectionable” lyrics that violate the foundations of accountable broadcasting.
“The Nationwide Broadcasting Fee has recognized the tune ‘Inform Your Papa’ by Eedris Abdulkareem, presently trending on social media, as content material deemed inappropriate for broadcast on account of its objectionable nature,” the memo said.
It additionally declared that the tune falls below content material categorised as Not To Be Broadcast (NTBB), as offered within the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.
“It’s subsequently categorised as Not To Be Broadcast (NTBB), because it violates Part 3.1.8 of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.”
That part of the code restricts media platforms from airing content material seen as offensive, indecent, or towards public morality.
“The fee requests that your station workouts discretion and refrains from airing this tune to take care of accountable broadcasting requirements.”
The tune, Inform Your Papa, had gained large consideration on-line after Eedris known as out Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for praising his father regardless of the hardship within the nation.
Eedris, identified for his controversial lyrics and politically charged songs like Jaga Jaga, is but to answer the NBC’s choice.
The rapper had earlier described the brand new monitor as “a voice for the unvoiced.”
This isn’t the primary time NBC has banned his music. In 2004, the identical fee positioned a ban on Jaga Jaga after it criticised the Nigerian authorities below President Olusegun Obasanjo.
