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MrBiGGEST:
I read one adexchealsea’s comment on your mention
The guy was right tho.
He implied you’re not adekunle fan and he’s right,That indirect de campaign is stale now.
It’s sucks to see people who don’t really support him to come and be claiming “I stop supporting because of Venita “

Even Garfield nor troway support because of Venita.

Hold on. A few questions, please.

1. What does it mean to be a 'fan' of another person?

2. Is it a moral, religious or ethical philosophy that is unchangeable, please?

For clarification, if necessary, these individuals are human beings who are essentially younger and less experienced than I may be. This is a mere Television Reality show, something that I watch whenever I do not particularly busy at what I do. On most occasions, I simply catch up with the social experiment taking place by reading this thread on Nairaland.

Ilebaye, who would win the show, and who is my favourite on this current show, is almost younger than my Nairaland handle. So let's get things in good perspective.

Wotowotoman:
You can believe anything you want to believe if it makes you sleep well at night

Yea WWM, we all need a good night sleep after all.

I'll always welcome superior argument, good night sleep necessity or not.

DOptical:
The useless entitlement I was talking about as if the housemates were brought in to become nannies and robots! The nerves! I mean other housemates are sole responsible for themselves alone, they didn't bring anyone's papa to come and be their nannies or robots for them, so why should anyone expect this from the housemates who came to enjoy themselves yet some toxic dumb idiots out had the nerves to be demonising them all because of one toxic dumb idiot on the show?

Meanwhile, did you forget Baye was badmouthing Adekunle to Doyin right from the beginning? Adekunle didn't have a problem with Ilebaye yet she was constantly badmouthing him to Doyin because of her entitlement over BFF. She promised to sabotage his wage task and had even refused to wear the costume made for her. She was disgraced in the end because Adekunle won his wager regardless. I keep saying that na Adekunle's head fought with both of them who lost their wagers in the end. Funny Baye sabotaged Doyin's wager task and her own wager was nothing to write about. Both wanted to ruin Adekunle's wager task but lost their own wager in the end. Adekunle's head fought with them both.

Baye was just as toxic as Venita and Ceec. Baye fought with almost all the housemates as a matter of fact. That was her only content! She was the one who went to fight with Venita over a dick, Venita's cousin, so why should it be anyone's problem? Who even does that? Baye was as toxic as Ceec and Venita. Baye also fought with Ceec because Baye felt entitled to a naked Cross in the bathroom apart from stealing Ceec's make up while lying about it.

On Gideon's words to Pere, He probably didn't say such to Ceec because he probably realised that none of the girls were better. I mean the girls are more or less the same as Ceec, so if he was to say such to Ceec, he would have to tell all the girls the same thing.

I personally don't support anyone who plays the victim and start to cry any useless tears to play the victim. I mean there are hardly victims on Biggie's show, considering all of them came to eat, enjoy and rest. So what's with the nonsensical victim card trash? If Tolani had done such, I wouldn't have supported her to begin with. I supported Tolani because of the toxic hypocrisy from useless people out there! I mean Tolani was quite peaceful, as admttited by lots of the housemates yet useless toxic people out there wouldn't let her rest but kept attacking her whereas these same useless hypocritical people were arising for one toxic dumb idiot who fought with almost all the housemates while expecting the housemates to be robots and nannies, as well as the Dumb toxis idiots supporting her. They demonised all the housemates for her. Worst show ever!

I'm sorry. You sound really upset. I apologise if I offended you.

That written, Ilebaye is nowhere near being a perfect person. She's simply a young person coming of age. She's like a much younger version of Whitemoney: innocent, naive, error-prone, alcohol-weakened, some small kleptomania - but she's a loving and nice heart.

She was certainly caught in some peer pressure ugly activity with Doyin. She apparently undermined previous HOHs when she never thought she would be one. She possibly took Ceec's foundation and her alcohol on another occasion without owning up to both, but who doesn't make mistakes, especially when young and immature?

Look at the tattoo on her cleavage which is exposed whenever she wears beach wear on Thursday Pool parties. You'll wonder how she got it. It would mean she exposed her bare chest to a body artist. Someone who is a Daddy's girl with a protected life and who attended a private university.

This is a lady who cannot cook for herself, who has a second class upper and speaks Ghana-English but cannot read briefs coherently. I don't know who is worse of she and Omatshola. My Baye baby shouted 'Jesus' when oil minimally splashed...

Baye isn't a saint, but she isn't a sadist. She isn't proud. She isn't resentful. She is human. She is a young person. 22 is only 4 years an adult but she's otherwise sweet on the overall, and that's why she'll win this year.

After winning this show, she'll have a lot to do to maintain that societal acceptance vibe over the rest of her career, and the good Lord would help her.

Wotowotoman:
Lekan won the same way Ilebaye will win this year….pity strategy used by social media influencers to gain ‘bandwagon’ votes. The average Nigerian loves the ‘underdog’…

BTW, dancing to traditional owambe music is not the same as dancing to hip hop or afrobeats music..that Adekunle na owambe dancer no mean say he can dance to hip hop or Afrobeats..

Laycon was the most intelligent house mate that year. His IQ was way over the charts. He didn't win via pity votes. Lekan was a genius in that house. The closest to him in this house is Adekunle. Even at that, Deks still fumbled at least once during the HFM General Questions task. Let's not talk about Ceec's, Mercy, Cross or Alex's during that task.

Lekan Agbeleshebioba was a meteor in Big Brother's house. I've not seen another.

Amillionnn:
Actually, it was Mercy who condemned his dancing. Cee c said “he takes good instructions”
this is in regards to the dancing.

I also agree that Adekunle could have won without this competition right now. The streets would have been for him but… we all know how that turned out

You are right. Mercy said it while CeeC responded as you wrote. Very true.

Good morning

Artiiclebeast:
The government and those within it's circles aren't in any way separate nor can they be separated from the citizens/governed.

The government is a selection of citizens who graduate to positions of governance.

This is the truth. The government is a reflection of our general character. The government is not the problem. We are the problem.

Tatiana4u:
Awwwnnn…Baye made that special speech for her mum just to change the impression that she loves her dad more.I think her mum feels cheated out and she had to reassure her that she loves her as well.
I’m a daddy’s girl and I speak more about my late dad than my mum who’s still very much alive.
If I have the option of swapping my mum for my dad,I’d do it in less than a second!
The reason why it seems like people value their mum more is that most fathers are never present in the lives of their children!
They leave them to their wives to care for while they only provide money,food and shelter.
See eh,my dad was more involved in our upbringing than our mum.
Despite his busy schedule,he was our lesson teacher and he made sure we lacked nothing!
He was the one I opened up to,when I started having pains in my breast(early development) and when I first saw blood (menstruating )and he called my mum to come and attend to me.😂😂😂
If I decide to write about my dad,I won’t be able to stop and I’d cry because he influenced my taste in guys which made me picky about men but I’m so happy that I finally married someone who shares similar traits with my dad.
So please,don’t generalize about people’s preferences for their mum because my own is my dad,with my full chest!
In conclusion,men should should be deeply involved in their children’s lives and stop shifting their responsibilities to their wives so that I’m future,they won’t be treated as strangers or sidelined by the children they spent all their money on!

Your views are valid, Tatiana. It is impressive to see a Daddy's girl in the house. I am a Daddy's boy too. I picked him as my preferred parent as early as 8 years when I had to do a composition in school, and that has not changed many decades after. Everyone in the family knows.

So you can imagine if I were to appear on Continental TV to do a poem for a relative and I pick anyone but him. It would be false. It would be make-believe. That's what Baye did.

Very few people would ever 'make-believe' a poem for their Dad in such situation, but we would create one for our Mums. How many Dads are spoken about in public?

Take this all, Tatty, as a Dad writing about another Dad. We suffer. I often joke while doing ward rounds in the pediatric ward that men have largely come to suffer on earth. It is a sad truth. We all seem to prefer our Mums - both male and female children - in the final analysis. The fact that people like me and you are different doesn't make the exception the rule, unfortunately.

You cannot be 'deeply involved' with raising children and also be the primary breadwinner of the family in Nigeria. I didn't begin having 10 minute conversations with my father until I was nearing 20 and with my WAEC result on the table in his office.

I had passed all my papers at a first sitting was the first of his children as of then who had cleared all 9 papers in SSCE WAEC in one sitting. That was when I apparently 'earned' the right to have adult conversations with him as a man-to-man, but guess what, I had observed him in all the years before then and he was a good man. It didn't seem like he was capable of doing anything wrong, even though one barely saw him nor did he have time to quite play with children.

fyneguy:
Lol You guys present your assumptions as fact. There are people, whose facial expressions are stern but people mistake it for meanness. It's a wrong perception. I was like this when I was much younger. I had a stern look and people mistook it for not being receptive. It was when people got closer to me, they realized their gaffe. Stop judging people based on their facial expressions.

However, there is something about impressions, right?

You are taught that when going for interviews, not so? That's where it is important.

Big Brother Nigeria is an interview. They are participants in a reality television circus to entertain us, the viewing audience.

Finally, I presented no fact in the comment you quoted. I wrote impressions and opinions. A fact is something that has been tested and found to be incontrovertible. I wrote nothing to suggest such.

eepeepook:
E no concern me. It is worse in developed nations where some children choose to cut off both parents for reasons known to them. Relish in the fact you created a new generation of humans. Do not look for handouts and praises from them.

Would you say or write all these to a/your Mum?
No disrespect intended.

But you can write it to a Father.

Adexchelsea19:
Adekunle has told venita to stop saying somethings and he has done this many times, he even told her to not say some things about the sponsors. That is the least he can do bcs venita is not a baby that he will be scolding every now and then. In fact I’ve watch where he told venita to stop something and it leads to another fight. Please venita is responsible for herself, it’s not in even Adekunles place to be cautioning her when he’s not the one that brought her to the house.

finally, you are not a fan of Adekunle. There’s nothing Adekunle did this season that the other hms haven’t done worse. Just say the bandwagon jazz touch you and you ported, stop giving reasons that is very watery for your decision. As you leave Adekunle he still enter final bcs of the people that really love him.

Adekunle was ALWAYS going to make the final. That was written in the stars ab initio. He is a witty and sensible young man. Ladies like those in the BB House would not agree or try to 'ship' with anyone who doesn't look like a person that would help fans vote for them if they are ever nominated. A number of ladies tried to reach Adekunle before Venita cornered him all to herself.

However, fight or not, there was a way Adekunle eventually pulled the rug when he had enough of Venita's tantrums, wasn't it? Might it have come earlier? Was he afraid of what a fight might create? If a person is of bad character in the public and you continually tolerate the person, it dims your own light.

On departure from the show, Venita said she opened her heart to love and would see how it goes outside the house. Adekunle also read a great poem to her yesterday. So there's a real attraction there. Except Adekunle likes bad girls, and nobody likes such on permanent basis, there is something inherently toxic there - and it doesn't bode well.

Adekunle is an intelligent and handsome man on his day, alone and safe. His Isale Eko vibes were unmistakable on the dance floor yesterday. He was happy, he was the brightest part of yesterday's show. Our eventual winner Ilebaye was simply graceful and calm like a First Lady that she is.

There is a very bright future for Adekunle, but the further he stays away from Venita Oghenesomething Akpofure (he called all her names yesterday), the better for that future.

Kind regards.

Beorn:
You were making perfect sense till the emboldened. That's false. People that cheat, men or women, don't do it because because of stress. Even Dangote with all his money, private jet, yachts and life of affluence, being able to afford as much luxury as possible and less stress as he wants, still cheated. A person that would cheat would cheat for no reason at all.

Dangote didn't cheat. He is a serial divorcee.
Did Bill Gates cheat to suffer a divorce? Did Benny Hinn? Oyakhilome?

Riches have nothing to do with stress, trust me.

However, before we proceed, can we talk about how many years you've been around this 'industry' to know if you may really understand the subject matter? I mean, a Catholic Reverend priest cannot understand marriage that he has never lived in, for instance. He wouldn't know that all the women, single and married, who are nice to him and call him 'Father, Father' everywhere may otherwise treat him with absolute contempt and disregard if he was not a celibate and not a priest.

It would be difficult for him to understand, despite the fact that his cousin, the average Anglican Priest, may not receive that much adulation from his own parishioners. The reason is what we are saying: exotic, difficult to reach, once-in-a-while articles and characters are usually treated nicely.

DOptical:
Even though one "pity me'' toxic idiot turn the show to a mess with the constant demonizing of all the Housemates, as if the Housemates were brought in as nannies and robots for her on the show.

My best highlight of the show though.

The major conspirators (Kidd, Pere, Ike, Cross) constant plotting. I liked seeing them gather to scheme to vent off against all the other housemates but failing in their plan in the end😂 The Pepperdem also had their mini plotting before Venita got into ship.

Adekunle drama with Pere. His break dance and the whole drama were something else 😂

Kim's drama while turning both heads of Cross & Pere 😂 Kim was the best fake housemate!

Adekunle's commentary during the Guinness football task. That was hilarious and fun. The way he was praising his team with some fun tease during the commentary 😂

The usual Lipton event. It's always colourful fun event. The dances too, albeit the girls were quite rigid.

What else?

Ebuka & Gideon coming to chat with the Housemates yesterday was fun too.

Got to give this a "like" even though I may not agree with the rather mean words in the opening paragraph directed towards Baye's handler.

CeeC looks like a really mean lady though. She couldn't pretend to be happy to smile and dance on stage last night. She just kept that mean face and barely moved on the dance floor. She may need to really really loosen up.

You shouldn't be that uptight over 2 seasons on our screens, although a large number of people apparently like and encourage her at it.

When Gideon said Pere's view of life may be generally condescending, might he have refrained from telling CeeC same because of their friendship? Who is worse at that when both of them are compared?

Only that Venita may be the most vile of them all. Venita relentlessly attacked Ilebaye and Adekunle never cautioned her publicly at least. That killed his game, at least for me. It was what stopped me from supporting him and fully began voting for Baye

DOptical:
He surprised me with his dance tonight. I have always known he's got flexible body but he doesn't use it as much. Tonight tho, he came to play & enjoy himself. The way he was twisting his legs side by side while moving his body with it was so fun.

True, and it confirms one fact: that we cannot know everything about everyone even are watching them round the clock for 19 weeks in 12 months.

Strange but true.

Cos I heard even CeeC describe Adekunle as an average dancer in a conversation with Mercy a few days ago - only for Deks to stun the whole world on his second appearance on the Lipton party stage. He was particularly casual during his Level Up Lipton party. He quite looked like an older and more frail man at LU, from the videos I saw on YouTube - as I almost didn't watch BBN LU at all - when compared to the zest he brought to the party yesterday.

Adekunle may have been this season's winner if he didn't ship with Venita and had stayed 100% objective. Same way Laycon didn't ship - or was rejected by Erica - but went on to win the show as a man without a ship.

kowema:
They say Ilebaye looks like SU Mummy G.O,
Me I say she's looking like a first lady.
Her Excellency, princess Ilebaye.
We all see differently.

Oya Retche Retche3x 🎶🗣️

She certainly does remind me of First Lady Mariam Babangida of blessed memory.

It may be no mistake that Biggie gave her white and green colours for necklace as well as her sash. It reminds me of Laycon's night at the Lipton party. Olalekan Laycon didn't understand when the singer was dishing our 'Olamilekan Lo Ko So', same way Ilebaye isn't understanding how popular she is, especially when she was singled out for a Kogi song...

One thing I have learnt from this Lipton Task is something painful as a man:

About 70% of the 6 housemates dedicated their family and friends poem to their MOTHERS. None of them dedicated their poem to their Dad - not even Ilebaye who is a known Daddy's girl, as she had herself said on the show, as recently as the Diary Room a few days ago.

The implication for me is that men have a poor life. We do the heavy lifting. We provide for everyone in the family and while at it, we have much less time with the children and family.

Ultimately, we lose everything. Most of our children prefer our wives. We die early. We suffer loneliness when our wives go for Omugwo in old age.

Nobody tells the age-long truth in public, that men cheat and drink because they try to drown themselves at the and of the day to cope with occupational and family stress. Unfortunately, it is often counterproductive, as it worsens the problem on the home-front...

All jokes completely apart however, can't you all enjoy my baby Baye's huge smile and dance steps here as she dances to the Kogi part of this alujo?!

Go Ilebaye Baby!!!

But this Radio OAP wey Cross dey do alone for the past 1 hour make sense o.

He's been solely running the TV show by providing entertainment for the past one hour since everyone went to sleep, CeeC being the last one.

He's been mimicking DJ activities with the table and a bottle of water. Except that he told CeeC earlier on that he would be a billionaire in dollars, I think Cross Da Boss Okonkwo may have a ready contract at Wazobia FM for 200k naira or thereabout per month once this show is over...

It is interesting to see the friendship and conversations between Pere and Mercy.
It is inspiring to see Mercy saying she loves Whitemoney for being innocent, simple and non-malicious.
Mercy says, while eating with Pere who is swooning on her, that her heart is with Whitemoney for the virtues she sees in him. She says she doesn't need a man's money because she can handle her finances but wants a mature man who is not playing. She says she doesn't want 'bad boys' anymore.
Pere replies that she is getting into a phase that requires that manner of commitment.


What makes this all surreal is that someone, or some people on this thread had written that this would happen this a long time ago. Back then, it wasn't too clear what Mercy was doing with Whitemoney, and I really once caught Soma on the show before he was evicted saying to his crew that Mercy told him in private that she doesn't like Whitemoney. Apparently, Mercy wants to 'settle down' and sees a chief like Hazel as a possible long-term partner. It is no doubt that the fact that he is also a previous winner may play a role in her mind.

It tells me, ultimately, that many women in our country do not date for love - but 'based on logistics'. Whitemoney simply loves Mercy because she looks good, simple easy love. it is not to say that Mercy doesn't have a sweet character when she chooses to be simple and straight, but she is also quite 'street' when that side of her is exposed. No man in conservative Africa - and Hazel (Whitemoney) is a conservative African - would love to hear his fiancé say what Mercy told Pere, 'I do not mind knacking here, it is not anything, but I am not a single woman now'.

However, I am sure Hazel would jump at the opportunity to date, and possibly marry Mercy. However, marriage is the easier thing. Staying married in the face of the vagaries of life and the influence of the environment is the much harder part.

[quote author= post=126010243]Dear DrTee,
Thanks for taking your time out for the explanations above.
We will take our time to go through during the close of work.
Thanks once again and have a blessed week ahead sir.[/quote]You're welcome.
Your comment is so pleasant.
Kind regards.

djon78:
Yeah I totally agree with you

We don't have the critical mass of knowledgeable people to effect positive change

But from my own angle we can't fold up our hands and allow things get so bad

Example look at the havoc this past Buharis government caused in Nigeria
Messed up our economy
Now almost all our best brains are leaving the country

Who then will Develop our place?
It's very pathetic and heart breaking

But we must never give up

Each one of us must find ways to do our own little within our sphere of influence

That's is my modus operandi now

If we don't do even the little we can
This Nation and continent will be sold out to the dogs, the worst of us

God forbid bad thing!!!

No, we should not fold our arms. We cannot afford to.

One of the ways not to fold out arms is what we are doing here. We cannot recruit the right number into the knowledgeable critical mass IF we do not spell out how we got here so that our people do not get distracted when we begin to act to right the wrongs.

That's usually the problem. It is a "cooking stage". We must get the right amount of ingredients and condiments as the case may be and "cook" it for long enough so that we don't get spoilt along the line.

The people, and systems, that profit from the squalor we have in Africa today are not going to give up easily. So this has little or nothing to do with religion or prayers but the right education and mobilisation first.

The citizenry and average populace are worse than the leadership, we've got to realise that. The citizens voted the leaders.

So there must be no rush in fixing this system problem. Our enemies are as many within us as the ones outside our country and continent.

[quote author= post=125998344]Here we go.....

Big Brother Show: Painful Statistics of what should be an illicit business

Pray for Nigerian youths

Total number of votes cast during Britain Got talent 2017 = 6.2million votes

Total number of votes cast during American got talent 2017 = 52.1million votes.
Note: American population is twice Nigeria's population.

Mind you, most of the votes cast on either Britain or American got talent are *absolutely free* because you can vote on their websites & on the Apps without paying a dime.

Total number of votes cast during “Big Brother Nigeria” 2018 = 170million votes @ N30 per sms for a show that contributes absolutely nothing to their lives.

It is neither a talent show or life enhancing or promoting show. A show where adults are kept in a cage to freely give & take sex on National Television, while the organisers make more money from the youths.

If INEC organises general election this weekend and ask Nigerian youths to vote on their mobile phones @ N10 per SMS to elect leaders that will shape their futures & the country, they will ask Nigerian Government to credit their accounts 1st before they will agree to vote in that magnitude.

“Wasted Generation” ~ Prof. Wole Soyinka called them.

“A generation that play too much, sleep too much and engage in idle chatter and gossip" ~ Chief Obafemi Awolowo foresaw

A generation of illiterate graduates ~ Atiku Abubakar called them in 2016

A generation that are constantly not concerned about the deteriorating conditions of their senses & not bothered about their own future~ Osquare78 knows them.

We all must be wary of this generation.... they are the larger chunk of Nigerian population.

It is pathetic. 170 Million votes Multiplied by N30 = N 5.1 billion and the winner got N25 million plus an SUV worth N12 million a trip and electronics.

To destroy the future, destroy the seed (children and youths)...

Pray for Nigeria youths to open their eyes and for God to touch the hearts of those who engage in such illicit business.

So unfortunate!

We Rise!




Gbamsolutely.






Na u be boss o ZigZagman.
Na man u be.
Stay blessed 🙌[/quote]Hi Manna.
Good morning.

Let us open our minds a little more to some of these things.

First, voting in BBNigeria is FREE. It doesn't cost 30 naira per vote. Nobody votes via SMS anymore.

2. Each person can vote FREELY, multiple times, the least being 100 Free online votes per phone number. Those who vote with their GOTV or DSTV apps can vote as few as 200 votes per week to 10,000 votes per week. So if you hear Ebuka say they received more than 200 million votes, it is because of this multiplier effect.

3. BBNigeria is a game of wits, a huge basis for Psychological Research. It is like creating a Human Zoo for people to watch other humans. The same lessons people learn by watching Natural Geographic channel on TV is the same type that is enjoyed watching Big Brother. The difference is that Big Brother teaches A MASSIVE LOT about how the demographic population on the show think.

Most housemates in BB Nigeria live in Lagos and sometimes in major cities of the world. Very few housemates live in places like Ibadan, Lokoja or Calabar. There is notable mention of Warri on the show, but only as a place, not as it relates to the business or entertainment options there.

Northern Nigeria is almost completely cut out of Big Brother. The show looks like Big Southern Nigeria. It teaches, importantly, the huge societal and cultural differences between Northern and Southern Nigeria. Besides Yusuf who was possibly from Kaduna and Ilebaye (Kogi, but possibly Lagos/Abuja raised), there is almost no one from the 12 States of the core-North on the show that should exemplify the whole of Nigeria.

We have the same problem with beauty peagents. I know, for instance that if the thousands of bi-racial Nigerians in Adamawa and the Shuwa Arabs all over Northern Nigeria were to participate on beauty peagents, few Southern Nigerian girls would beat them! These are important things about the demography of Nigeria that shows like these teach.

4. The good and vile sides of human beings are exhibited in the "human Zoo" that Big Brother is. Ilebaye would win this year's show because she had been harassed by her older housemates who saw her as a "nobody" almost throughout the show. In retaliation, Nigerians jumped on her back to shame the bullies. You wouldn't understand or appreciate that if you treat the show as well as the subtle messages it passes with disregard.

5. Many people do not understand the Psychology behind the Big Brother Concept. Primarily, it gives us the opportunity to experience what religion tells us about the All-seeing Almighty. As viewers, you get to see almost 100% of people's character: the wickedness of Venita, for instance. The child-like innocence of winner-elect, Ilebaye - even when she may innocently make honest mistakes with alcohol or at parties or with CeeC's make-up. We must realise that our Gen Z Baddie is only 22 and possibly had a very protected life before being thrown among wolves here.

6. I see my younger self in Ilebaye and I empathise with her. It is so heartbreaking to see her trying to hard to be at peace with these people and ensure she doesn't receive a third strike to earn automatic disqualification. To see almost everyone exploiting and nearly disrespecting her because many of them feel she is young and unworthy of their "class" is a shame.

6. I am comforted because the show makes viewers have a God-like view of the matters, where they see all inside and outside the house - unlike the housemates who only know what they do individually. We can see all the schemings, the desperation, the double-facing and most embarrassingly, the poor character that Adekunle ultimately is in tacitly supporting Venita as she harassed Ilebaye and undermined her as HOH. as a part of his strategy, until he served her breakfast at dinner when she ultimately brought her vile attitude to him. To hear that Venita even went to sleep upstairs, away from Adekunle, in order to get into Ilebaye's head and force her to be disqualified!

If only Ilebaye knew she has won the show already, and that Venita is a near nobody both on the show and possibly outside it... Maybe she'll not be hurt...

7. The concept of Bug Brother is to show a social experiment and teach human psychology. The series has its origin from the character in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In that book, George centres on the effects of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. This is what the Television series models by having cameras everywhere. Orwell modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on the Soviet Union in the era of Stalinism, and Nazi Germany.

8. More broadly, the novel after which the Television series is named examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated. If I had the time and means, I would write continuous academic articles for publication on Big Brother Naija. The closest short movie I have seen to Big Brother was the 1983 Eddie Murphy film, Trading Places.

9. Final advice: please watch Big Brother if you can spare the time. Ignore the obscenities. The producers have also worked very hard to ensure that nudities are almost non-existent these days.

Good morning and best regards.

osuofia2:
All you have said still lead to black mentality. Go to America and see the blacks, even in the midst of opportunities they still blame the white. They live and depends on govt pay checks. Blacks are greedy and insatiable. Talk of Charity how many blacks will their estate to charity, business longevity, Imagine club like real Madrid, how many years and still existing. Which black man business will live so? Blacks problem yapka and the white ain't responsible for it.

Is it because of their skin colour?
That's a scientific question.
Is it Melanin concentration, which is the only difference between the Black and the less-Black person biologically, the cause of the multitude of problems?

Or it is that there are institutional restrictions, even in the most developed countries that see that Black people are restricted in larger number to the lower ends of the socio-economic ladder?

You wouldn't say that Black, African-American, Hispanic and other minorities in Europe and America have been demonstrated to possess lower Intelligence Quotient in schools as compared to Caucasians, would you?

djon78:
The problem we have is that Africa doesn't have the fundamentals that these Asian countries had

Most importantly is sound visionary leaders

Singapore had Prime Minister Lee Kuan yew who Developed the blueprint and template Singapore is using till today since 1960s


Malaysia had Muhammad Mahatir who Developed the blueprint and template for Malaysia since 1970s


China had Chairman Mao who set the foundation for Chinas Development since 1960s


Even Vietnam that fought war with the US in the 1970s also set up same vision.
Today there Economy is doing massively.

Even Bangladesh is doing well


Japan the baba of Asia had Always been Developed since the beginning of 19th century


Japan was so Developed they fought the second world war as allies of Hitler with there factories producing the ammunition's used in the war


So Africa don't have the fundamentals of good visionary leadership
Which is our bane

The bit sound leaders we had small was during the first republic: Awolowo, Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello

Now we don't have such Calibre of visionary responsible leadership

Thank you for your kind feedback.

What would we say is the reason why Africa lacks this leaders IN AFRICA? I write this because many Africans OUTSIDE AFRICA have gone on to lead exemplary teams and units in Europe and America.

From Sports with Mike Emenalo at Chelsea to Finance with Okonjo Iweala and Adesina to Medicine with Badero and Olutoye to Engineering with Izu - and on and on. Let's not talk about President Obama in America. He is African, even if developed in America.

I think the challenge is not a lack of knowledgeable, patriotic and visionary leaders. I think that our democratic structures are subverted - intentionally - by our enemies (possibly from the West), using our people. If we look at the leaders of the Nigerian Second Republic that was truncated by Maj. Gen Buhari, there was a lot of positive development in the first four years of Shagari in 1979 - 1983. By the time they got desperate at the 1983 elections, things went pear shaped and the military found a justification to come in, unfortunately. It was not that Governors Jakande, Bola Ige, Ajasin or Ambrose Alli were not visionary and fantastic leaders.

Now, they (our enemies) neutered us while we slept by 'deleting' history from our curriculum and generously lowering our educational standards to levels where nobody trusts JAMB or WAEC again but even local Universities need to conduct 'post-UTME' and JAMB sets admission marks lower than 200 every year. How?!

International Universities today request that our graduates write the IELTS examination to prove that they can speak, write and understand the first of two official languages in Nigeria. It is so bad that nobody remembers that French is the second official language in Nigeria - when we don't even know how to speak the first official one.

So Sir/Madam, the problem is not leadership. In my opinion, the challenge is that we do not have the critical mass of knowledgeable people in the requisite number to change the trajectory of the country. It is why Mr Peter Obi, even if he became President, would not do anything as good - if he did good - as what he did as Anambra State Governor.

A man or woman can only deliver as good as the support system he or she has. Where everyone around you in the political and administrative system is of poor or suboptimal IQ, are sycophants looking to exploit or predate on the system for personal gain, then what we have is what you get.

Remember that the West needs African economy to remain agrarian, regressive and 'fantastically corrupt', in the famous words of a former UK PM to the late Queen of England.

For as long as that exists, we would be a net importer of finished goods and services from the developed world leaving our economy in a net deficit as compared to that of the countries that export processed goods and services. Countries that primarily export raw materials like unprocessed Agric produce and crude would always be poorer than countries that export refined fuel and luxury items like expensive wines and female artificial hair. It is simple economics.

Now, if such richer exporting country knows that a man who wrote this on Nairaland aspires to be a President or Governor in this Nigerian democracy, what do you think would happen? They would make money available to his/her opposition to sway the media against such person and make the people refuse to vote for such person in order to maintain the economic status quo.

That is the African problem. That is what Patrice Lumumba died over. It is what killed Tom Sankara. It caused Ghadaffi death.

Ask yourself where the South African economy is today. Ask yourself why Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Congo, Congo DR, Central Africa Republic, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Sudan, Eritrea, South Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mauritania and all the 53 African countries seem to fail. Ask why the economy of Silicon Valley, a place inside the State of California in USA is multiple times the economy of the whole of Africa.

It is intentional. It isn't because we do not have visonary leadership. It is because our democracy has been 'carefully tuned' in Africa to ensure that poverty has been WEAPONISED to subvert what democracy should be. When that is added to lower educational standards which blunts critical thinking, what we have is what you get.

The Asian Tigers like China and Dubai and Singapore didn't get it right with this Western style of democratic leadership, did they? The West would decry that kind of leadership as 'dictatorial' and undemocratic, but where we are without a knowledgeable population in the necessary number on the base of widespread poverty and lack, what we have is what one gets.

Good morning.

osuofia2:
Bro, they won't answer these questions correctly because they are always looking for who to blame. So the white also made them to be stealing public and private funds. Blacks are not meant to lead

I do not think that leadership has anything to do with skin colour.

I think that Sub Saharan Africa has a lot of catching up to do, while dealing actively with external aggression from the developed economies of the West and internal subversion aided or sometimes instigated by agents of the Western/developed world.

Should Africa get it right, like Thomas Sankara and people like Mummar Ghadaffi sought to establish African self-sustainability, there would be economic challenges in the West, as they would have markets to export their finished and processed goods too. So it is a desperate cat and mouse game.

Unfortunately, we have destroyed ourselves so badly by lowering standards and value of education through bribery and corruption that we cannot see these things. What is worse is that the average one amongst us just ones to be in the eye of the public 'enjoying' and 'spending'.

You wouldn't see that in England or Switzerland. You wouldn't see the average European buying the luxuries we desperately seek here the way we do. There are credit schemes for almost everything in Europe and the West.

When they are tired of whatever merchandise, they either recycle to produce something new or ship the waste to Africa, where African modern slaves in Europe jump at it to send it home as 'Belgium' or 'Tokunbo'.

They do not jump at the newest iPhones in that manner that we do. Even when they do, they trade their old ones in for the newer models on their credit cards. The old ones then come to Africa as 'UK used', making their economy gain double - mortgage from the original user and full payment from the importer while using the same opportunity to dispose what would have been electronic waste!

We simply have to think out of the box and generally import less finished products while exporting more finished products in order to balance trade. Our penchant for luxuries like artificial hair and expensive alcohol/wines, which is one of our biggest imports, is another of our undoings.

We must also rid out examination malpractices and miracle centres and raise the wages of teachers which consequently raise the minimum educational standards in that country and improve the critical thinking capacity of the average Nigerian.

It has nothing to do with skin colour, really.

djon78:
Actually it was emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity
Turned Rome from pagan to Christianity
And founded the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church was already established 600 years before the coming of prophet Muhammad

The Catholic Church held sway for over 1500 years before the advent of Martin Luther, the creating of the church of England, then Methodist Church

Then the migration of pilgrims to the New world America when they were fleeing from persecution from the king's of Europe

The pilgrims founded America on foundation of Liberty, and freedom for every Man

The Americans fought war with the British and gained Independence
Setting up the powerful US Constitution built on Liberty


The Europeans then began to go around discovering other parts of the world aided by industrial revolution they built the steam engine that enabled ships travel thousands of miles to other continents especially championed by the Portuguese and the British

The Portuguese were the first to discover Africa while the British discovered Australia, New Zealand.

The Europeans started coming to Africa and the transatlantic slave trade started for over 150 years
Africans were sold into slavery to the New world, America, Caribbeans

Then the British abolished slave trade and started Trading on raw materials like palm oil etc

With time they formed trading posts in Africa example is the Royal Niger company that First came as traders but later colonised Africa by Force after Africa was shared amongst the Europeans in late 18th century

That's when Nigeria was formed and various African tribes were organized into Nations


This has been the bane of Africa as a continent
And the reality is that Africa may never Develop like other parts of the world
Because the Europeans that gave us form and being are the ones still in control of our world

We Africans are no match for them in Development and advancement

With respect to the bolded, can we learn from Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, JAPAN & China - who suffered the same plight as most of Africa but are economically independent today?

dfrost:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;

Marc Antony - Caesar's Horseman

Here is the summary (and meaning) of Marc Anthony's dirge as obtainable from Wikipedia:

Antony has been allowed by Brutus and the other conspirators to make a funeral oration for Caesar on condition that he will not blame them for Caesar's death; however, while Antony's speech outwardly begins by justifying the actions of Brutus and the assassins, Antony uses rhetoric and genuine reminders to ultimately portray Caesar in such a positive light that the crowd is enraged against the conspirators.

Throughout his speech, Antony calls the conspirators "honourable men" – his implied sarcasm becoming increasingly obvious. He begins by carefully rebutting the notion that his friend, Caesar, deserved to die because he was ambitious, instead claiming that his actions were for the good of the Roman people, whom he cared for deeply ("When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff". He denies that Caesar wanted to make himself king, for there were many who witnessed the latter's denying the crown three times.

As Antony reflects on Caesar's death and the injustice that nobody will be blamed for it, he becomes overwhelmed with emotion and deliberately pauses ("My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me". As he does this, the crowd begins to turn against the conspirators.

Antony then teases the crowd with Caesar's will, which they beg him to read, but he refuses. Antony tells the crowd to "have patience" and expresses his feeling that he will "wrong the honourable men / Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar" if he is to read the will. The crowd, increasingly agitated, calls the conspirators "traitors" and demands that Antony read out the will.

Instead of reading the will immediately, however, he focuses the crowd's attention on Caesar's body, pointing out his wounds and stressing the conspirators' betrayal of a man who trusted them, in particular the betrayal of Brutus ("Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!". In response to the passion of the crowd, Antony denies that he is trying to agitate them ("I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts", and he contrasts Brutus, "an orator", with himself, "a plain, blunt man", implying that Brutus has manipulated them through deceitful rhetoric. He claims that if he were as eloquent as Brutus, he could give a voice to each of Caesar's wounds ("... that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny".

After that, Antony deals his final blow by revealing Caesar's will, in which "To every Roman citizen he gives, / To every several man, seventy-five drachmas" as well as land, to the crowd. He ends his speech with a dramatic flourish: "Here was a Caesar, when comes such another?", at which point the crowd begins to riot and search out the assassins with the intention of killing them.

Antony then utters to himself: "Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, / Take thou what course thou wilt!"

I guess this would help to put Caesar in the right light by our Nairaland audience.

Tonight is the night of reckoning for our Ghana-Kogi small pepper winner-in-wait.

If she doesn't get drunk and fall into Ceec and the other evil women's plots to be disqualified for an infraction,SHE WOULD WIN THE SHOW.

Those women absolutely disrespect her, and it is so unfortunate.

But by the way, what happened between Soma and Angel? I always knew Soma was setting himself for destruction in shipping with a damaged product like Angel.

Currently, there are barely any wife materials left in that human zoo. Possibly only Ilebaye, who is being harassed by the damaged characters who cannot relate responsibly with a young, innocent and naive housemate.

Lauryn41:
Venita is successful

None of the housemates are failures

Drag them with anything except this

I'm not dragging. I met Lekan (Laycon) a few months ago. Somewhere far from Lagos. He was simple and unassuming, and received a lot of love, even as he went about his way quite pleasantly and without airs.

That's success. Success isn't money. Money is ephemeral. Success is the net impression you live in the hearts and minds of people after your time in the lights.

Seyi Awolowo was crying at his exit session with Ebuka a day after his eviction. Imagine Venita's.

Success is what is left in the hearts and minds of the people after watching you round the clock for nearly 3 months in a human "zoo" where your very existence and every action in that period is x-rayed by the entire world.

Viewing it that way, would you say Ms Venita has sold herself as the most reliable and positive person of the lot? There goes "success", not money, even if money is a part of success stories - but isn't essentially its centre.

Tatiana4u:
She no fit tell am say she go invite am come her own wedding?
I thought she’s the queen of gbas gbos?😂😂
Abi na only for Baye body she get mouth?😂
In my opinion,Venita has said worse things to Adekunle and he never held it against her.
She badmouthed him several times,especially when he’s up for eviction and made him miserable,sabotaged their task yet he was the one who begged for reconciliation after she used tears to blackmail him!
She brings out the worst in him,tries to control and isolate him from others while he keeps complementing and tolerating her.
Abeg Venita own too much!
See eh,a woman who really wants to stay in a relationship be tolerant,patient,forgiving and shouldn’t take things too seriously if not,she and her partner will be looking so stressed and worn out!
See as Adekunle dey lose weight despite all the food wey in dey chop!
He looks like a dehydrated homeless beggar to me any it’s as a result of Venita’s wahala!
Venita on the other hand looks worn out and she’s aging rapidly because she has realized that Adekunle’s slipped out of her claws and she knows that people will be laughing at her now.😂😂😂😂

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Lauryn41.

Is this the kind of Venita 'successful' you meant, or were you being sarcastic?

safarigirl:
Funny enough, I want to feel bad for Venita, because low-key, Adekunle did her dirty at the dinner, and said some really hurtful stuff to her, but I cannot find it in me to feel for a mean person.

Na she say na only boys dey person head, yet, sho carry all her money go buy dinner date with man. Money wey she for use buy immunity or even sell to Cross the businessman, she use am go buy date. Now, immunity she no get, money, she no get, man sef, she no get. 0/3. So, whose head is really filled with boys?


Anyway, EmmaRose vs. CrossGel dinner date will remain my favourite dinner date, because romance and laughter wan kill me that day, Shella's was romantic, but I no laugh. Still, it is better than the shipwreck of last night. Just goes to show that shipping is not for everybody.

Yoruba people have a saying. It goes thus, 'when you point a finger at a person', your rest 4 are pointing at you.

Venita is so vile, almost the dictionary definition of WITCHCRAFT. Now, she is everything she described Ilebaye as, and the Almighty has raised Ilebaye above her now and possibly forever.

The whole world now knows that she possibly whores around Lekki and the Island. The world knows about her failures. To compound it all, the world also knows that she is vile. There is almost no place to hide now.

Finally 'finally', the much younger man she was hoping to 'catch' just served her a deserved breakfast and whistled while walking way.

Talk about fire and brimstone on small pepper, Ilebaye's haters!

Tatiana4u:
Kwa kwa kwa
Did you see how Adekunle packed all the food and left?
Lmao!
It was epic!
Venita wan die!😂😂😂😂
She could have just ordered food for herself alone but she wanted to pepper her fellow housemates!
Let her enjoy her breakfast Abeg!

Abeg una get link to the video for twitter?
E sweet me dye!

To finish it all, make Biggie evict both of them on Sunday leave only Pere with the other 4.

Avedonn:
I like Adekunle but I'm very disappointed on how handled the dinner thing.

He'd have declined the the dinner date if he knew he'll waste viewers time with his childish behavior.

Venita can be a lot to handle, but he's a man for heaven sake. He should've ignored whatever issues they're having and let them enjoy the special moment.

How can you be on date with a lady and say you want to see her eat. Who does that?

The guy is too blank and primitive and Venita deserve better than that.

I like him but the guy is too primitive and childish.

So a woman can do anything she wishes to another person, but because the other person has XY chromosome and its attendant physical differences, be should not give back as much as he receives? Like seriously?!

What kind of Gender Equality is that one?

The man doesn't have a mother, or wasn't raised by one, or doesn't have hormones like the woman or has no sisters?

Men, like women, are equal before the law!

ColdHunter:
Doesnt stop him from engaging the lady. They dont necessarily have to discuss their "future". All he needed to do was talk about himself, his interests and all that

Really?
There should be a rulebook about these things.

Another woman would complain that such man was only talking about himself boastfully. You see? She would say he didn't compliment her and talk about how she would fit into his life!!!!

What interests would they discuss at dinner that they had never previously discussed in 9 weeks?