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  • Mothers fuelling ‘Yahoo Yahoo’, ‘hook-up’ trends, says K Solo

    Mothers fuelling ‘Yahoo Yahoo’, ‘hook-up’ trends, says K Solo

    Music producer K-Solo has blamed women, particularly mothers for fuelling internet fraud and online s3x marketing popularly known as ‘hook-up’ in Nigeria.

    In an interview with Arise TV, he asserted that mothers encourage their children to engage in these vices, citing a personal experience where he confronted a mother who was encouraging her underage daughter to engage in illicit activities.

    K-Solo believed that women have a significant role in addressing these issues and inspiring young girls to make better choices.

    He also criticised female celebrities for promoting luxurious lifestyles without revealing their hard work, adding to the problem. 

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    K-Solo said: “Hook-up in Nigeria is now like ordering food. It’s almost normal. They even defend it by saying it happens abroad. But I think there should be rules guiding it.

    “A lot is backed from the underground. The people who can help from the home side are the women; the mothers. I’m sorry, but mothers are the biggest disasters. There was a day when my car broke down on the road and I saw a young girl, she should be like 16 or 17, and she was going out. I heard the mother tell her in Yoruba to bring something back. I confronted the mother, asking where her child works because she was dressed so fine and looked too good to be going to the office in that dress. She couldn’t answer.

    “I looked at the mother and said, ‘By look, I’m older than you. What are you doing at home that you’re telling that poor girl to bring something home?’ Now, let me quickly add this again, when Yahoo started in Nigeria, it was the mothers who were picking up the fraud proceeds from the bank. This shouldn’t sound like I’m talking from a book. It’s what has been happening.

    “The day mothers and female advocates start speaking against these vices more, there will be a lot of changes. The day female celebrities who flaunt their luxurious lifestyles on the internet come out and let girls know how they hustle on the fields, a lot of young girls will go back to the drawing board.”

  • Bigger Ibekwe releases Yahoo Yahoo to curb internet fraud

    Bigger Ibekwe releases Yahoo Yahoo to curb internet fraud

    Worried by rising criminal activities, especially financial crimes, in the country, versatile gospel act Bigger Ibekwe aka Mr. Bigger has released a song entitled, Yahoo Yahoo’

     According to Mr Bigger, the song aims at curbing the fraudulent activities in Nigeria.

    The video, to be released tomorrow, will serve as a campaign against crimes, particularly financial and internet fraud, according to Mr. Bigger.

    On the inspiration behind the latest video, Mr. Bigger said: “I was particularly worried about the current situation of criminality in the country and the manner security operatives handle the situation.

     “The video, titled Yahoo Yahoo, has become imperative at this time at this time that yahoo-yahoo and other financial crimes have become a major problem to the society. Yahoo Yahoo is a cybercrime and numerous people have had their fortunes eroded by this scourge. “Security operatives trying to tackle it go about it in a wrong way, thereby creating more public outcry. Harassment and perception of young people with dreadlocks as fraudsters by security personnel needs to be properly checked and curtailed. The video addresses all this.”

     Recalling an incident that triggered the inspiration of the song, Mr. Bigger said, “The work came out of an experience I had while going for a music video shoot with my crew. As we got to a police checkpoint, they stopped us and concluded the boys with me, because of their dreadlocks, were Yahoo Yahoo fraudsters. We were harassed by the security men owing to their perception of young boys with dreadlocks.

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     “Security operatives, like the song implies, need to calm down and discharge their duties professionally. Frankly speaking, they need training and retraining to attain professionalism in their job.”

     He called on young people to desist from fraudulent activities, adding that incidents of fraud should be handled professionally.

     Mr. Bigger, who has been known for gospel hits, stated that the latest work, just as the previous songs and videos, were inspired by God.

     Mr. Bigger, graduated from the Theatre Arts Department, University of Benin and proceeded to Furen Catholic University, Hsinchuan-Taipei, Taiwan where he studied Chinese Language and Culture, and then Deaken University, Canberra Australia, where he bagged Masters in International Relations and Politics, with emphasis on Conflict Resolutions, among others.