Multichoice Nigeria, the organiser of the famous BBNaija actuality show, say the simply concluded season 7 price N4.7 billion to produce.
John Ugbe, Multichoice’s chief executive officer, published this at the prize presentation ceremony held in Lagos on Tuesday.
Tagged ‘Level Up’, the show premiered on 23 and 24 July and ended on Sunday with 25-year-old Phyna declared winner of the N100m star prize.
Mr Ugbe said: “This exhibit additionally contributed substantially to the Nigerian economy; an instance is the production value of about 4.7 billion Naira, which includes licensing, auditing, marketing, remodelling cost”.
He additionally stated that as part of Big Brother Naija’s contribution to the economy, they created employment possibilities for many.
“This year, we employed over 1,200 people, immediately and indirectly, we touched each and every bit of the economy, and today we had over 4 to ten thousand people throughout a variety of industries working on this show”.
On the data of votes gathered at the opposition this year, Mr Ugbe stated this version broke previous records with over 1 billion votes cast
During his remarks, he congratulated Phyna on her win and expressed his gratitude to all her housemates
“Thank you, stage up housemates, the actual ones, the pretend ones, even the riders; you all played your part in this lovely season, you gave us top class entertainment, and we watched you for ten weeks”.
He additionally thanked all the sponsors of the exhibit and the crew of Big Brother Naija like Pocket through Piggyvest, headline sponsors, Flutterwave-our accomplice sponsors and all the different sponsors”.
The CEO additionally mentioned that the games and tasks created extra winners this year with over an N100m well worth of prizes received simply from jobs by myself this season”.
While expressing gratitude to the viewers and fans, Mr Ugbe said that some fortunate followers who locked in their favourites with multiple votes would acquire N1m each.
Teamwork
Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, the show’s host, spoke on the approaches that made the simply concluded season a success.
He said: “It takes a village to get this off the ground; on a Sunday stay eviction exhibit alone, over 50 humans are working, whilst indirectly, over 14,000 human beings are worried in the Saturday night time parties, in factors like costumes and different things.”
“I used to be very frightened when the season started; we had two channels; I hoped we wouldn’t have any system defects or something,” Ebuka stated whilst talking on the new twist and trends this season.
