Season 2
Known as Big Brother Nigeria in its first season, Big Brother Naija is a slacker's dream - getting off work for months, lounging in the jacuzzi for hours on end, achieving 15 minutes of notoriety and the possibility of winning a million bucks.
Twelve people enter the Big Brother household and live there with television cameras watching their every move 24/7. The only contact they have with the outside world is the disembodied voice of Big Brother who controls what they are allowed to do.
Every week housemates are nominated for eviction. It is then up to the audience to vote for who they want to see gone.
Popularity and entertainment are key or else the viewers will eat you alive. The one who manages to avoid eviction until the end and garners the most audience support wins a big cash prize.
For 11 weeks we witness the drama, action, comedy and perhaps a few tears as 12 total strangers get to live together in one house, with only one emerging winner of the grand prize of 25-million naira (approximately R1,1 million) and a brand new KIA Sorento.
The show was hosted by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, a former housemate in the Big Brother Nigeria show back in 2006. The lawyer-turned-media personality ushered the housemates into the Big Brother Naija house and took up the task of announcing the evictees week after week.
Big Brother Naija ran 24/7 on DStv Channel 198, with live eviction shows as well as the best of the live daily and weekly highlights shown on Africa Magic Urban and Africa Magic World.
Season 2 was won by Efe Ejeba.