By Adewuyi Ololade John
For the past three weeks, I and a lot of other Nigerians, young and old alike, have become glued to our TV sets both at work and home by the Big Brother Nigeria show. It has come at a time when a lot of people need to fill a void in their lives which work could not fill. A lot of us have found an escape from reality in the voyeuristic experience typified by the BBN house. It is vintage entertainment at its best when you can watch all the things happening in the life of twelve people that had never before met being locked up in a house for 13 weeks and you dangle a juicy $100,000 American before them. It definitely makes for some interesting viewing when the housemates begin to outwit and try to outlast one another to win the prize.
It is no longer news then that the Big Brother Nigeria show has since claimed its first casualty after two weeks. Two housemates had been nominated on Monday the 13th for eviction by the housemates. They were the braid-wearing, six feet eight inches tall, self employed musician Yinka Oremosu and the lovely, ever-smiling Benue-born 21 year-old Ichemeta Ochoga. They had gotten five and eight nominations respectively. The choice of who would be leaving the house on Sunday the 19th was then left to viewers all over Africa to decide by their sms votes. After one week of anxious voting and suspense, the nominee with the highest number of votes has now been cast out of the house.
Ichemeta emerged out of the house with head held high full of smiles and not betraying any sign of disappointment having lost the chance of winning the grand prix. She emerged into great applause and went into the warm embrace of her parents who had come in to witness the memorable event. Chem as she is fondly called was full of joy and didn’t lay any blame on the doorsteps of any of the ‘friends’ that had nominated her saying, ‘I don’t hate any of them… it’s just a game and everybody wants to win the money’. Great spirit girl!
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