NIGERIA may have put this year’s episode of the Television Reality Show, Big Brother Africa, in jeopardy following its insistence on rejecting the broadcast of the three months programme in any part of the country.

The House of Representatives had in 2007 placed a ban on the TV Reality Show beamed across the world from South Africa and sponsored by Muti-Choice Communications in protest against the heavily salacious images known with Big Brother Africa.

The ban came about following a motion sponsored by the House of Representatives Committee on Communications headed by Honourable Dino Melaye seeking to block the broadcast of the programme from the Nigerian air space.

The motion had complained against the permission of nudity of among House mates in Big Brother, even as the inmates had the free will to engage in sexual acts, a practice considered by the lawmakers as “barbaric, obscene, unethical and un-African.

The outrage expressed by members of the House against Big Brother Africa emanated from the manner by which a Nigerian girl; Ofuneka, was defiled after being lured into a lurid sexual with the influence of alcohol by a fellow House mate, even as the images of the sexual act were broadcast live and watched in many Nigerian homes.

Ofuneka, considered as having the brightest chances of winning the prize in Big Brother scad came second at the end of the TV reality show, prompting Nigerians who were familiar with the trend of award tricks by Big Brother to accuse the organizers as utterly biased.

Some Nigerians believed that the orgy of sexual act thrown in the way of Ofuneka was the reason she could not win the $100,000 prize offered by the sponsors, as the man who lured her into committing the open sin eventually carted home the entire amount.

A Nigerian who participated in an earlier version of Big Brother before Ofuneka also fell short of winning the $100,000 cash prize having came closer to doing so. That had prompted the audience in Nigeria to believe that the Big Brother is all about regional politics.

Not happy with its inability to air the next episode of Big Brother in Nigeria, Multi-Choice Communications had however, begun intense lobbying around the corridors of power with intent to committing the authorities into accepting to lift the ban on the broadcast.

The House of Representatives had however, agreed to lift the ban on the airing of Big Brother, but with a clause that it should not allow any salacious or sexual scene among the House mates, a condition which Multi-Choice appeared not keen about accepting.

The communication company had from the start of this week, intensified lobby in convincing the House of Representatives members from releasing the Nigerian air space for the broadcast of the TV reality show.

Speaking with Saturday Tribune, the House Committee Chairman on Communication, Honourable Dino Melaye, said Nigeria would not change its mind on the ban.

He reiterated that the programme could only be aired in the country provided Multi- Choice would leave out unethical scenes including open cuddling, nuzzling, smoking and sexual acts by House mates.

The argument by the sponsors of Big Brother Africa for not accepting that condition, Saturday Tribune learnt was that the essence of the reality show would have been defeated if such licentious scenes were left out.

The reality show was initially scheduled to begin last month as advertised, whereas the delay in the broadcast has been the making of the mindset of the government of Nigeria on the broadcast. Nigeria is considered the biggest catchment for the television programme by Multi-Choice.

Gonorrhea:

Glad they banned the big bro thing

Now what they need to ban is themselves being greedy, corrupt and lazy!!

candylips:

I hope it remains banned. Even bb uk and bb usa don't have such explicit scenes shown in bba

A_K_O:

So no BBA because Naija no gree. . . . . nawa oh!

But seriously as much as people with strict morals would be in support of a ban or a regulation, it is quite ironic that a country with so much corruption at the same time feels morally justified to make this kind of move. It's much the same way OBJ says he is a christian. I ai'nt judging him though. . . .