#OLIC4 can be a successful concert if Olamide’s team can handle the crowd and manage security. In another of his record-setting feats, rapper Olamide has announced Teslim Balogun Stadium as the venue for 2017’s edition of his seminal concert, Olamide Live in Concert. Besides being the first edition to be held outside the relative sanctity of Eko Hotel, it is also the first time in over a decade that any artiste will be attempting to pack 20,000 odd Lagosians into one place for a night of music.It goes without saying that this will pose new challenges, the most important of which will be security. Concerts in Lagos are not exactly hotbeds of crime but here are five ways Olamide’s team can manage security problems at his tribute to the mainland he so fervently represents.(1) Charge a gate fee: Olamide’s team needs to consider crowd control, especially with managing who makes it into the main bowl of the stadium and the concert proper. The rapper will be the first to tell you that he makes music of and for the streets.
