Veno Marioghae Mbanefo, a veteran Nigerian artiste, has dragged a telecommunications company, Airtel Network Limited before the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos for “unauthorised use” of her musical work. Mbanefo disclosed this in a statement sent to SaharaReporters on Tuesday. The statement reads, “I, Veno Marioghae Mbanefo, found out a few months ago, that Airtel had been using my song, "Nigeria Go Survive," to market their products, using their telemarketing numbers, without my permission.
Veno Marioghae Mbanefo, a veteran artiste, in a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Network Limited, Ikoyi, Lagos, accused the telecoms company of using her song, ‘Nigeria Go Survive’ to promote its TV app and ‘The Voice Nigeria’, without her permission.
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