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  • I am Payporte ambassador – Soma

    One of the housemates evicted long before the grand finale on Sunday, Soma said he had gotten an ambassadorial contract with Payporte, an online store and sponsor of the 2017 Big Brother Naija ‘See Goobe.’

    The singer and son of a pastor said this in a short video clip shown during the finale of the reality TV show on Sunday.

    Other evicted housemates also said they were busy with some projects they got involved in after leaving the house.

    While Miyonse said he was still considering offers from different quarters, CocoIce said she had done a movie and currently in a location for another movie.

    Tintalltony said he had gotten two offers so far but he was still hoping to get more.

    While some said they got a lot of offers, others said they were working on various projects ranging from movies, music to music videos.

    From the Ikeja Viewing Park, where all the evicted housemates and other fans converged for live coverage of the finale, Uriel said, she was not happy to have left the house when she was evicted

    A popular TV personality, Danrele Odum said “the Big Brother Naija show shut down social media, it was always trending.”

    At the grand finale, Efe, an economics graduate who got 57.61 per cent of votes was crowned winner of the 2017 edition of the show.

    Bisola won the ONE Campaign Prize and would join the organisation at the United Nations Assembly to speak on girl-child education later this year.

    Tboss on the other hand won the Payporte Arena Prize challenge of N500,000.

    The 11 week reality show show started on Jan. 22 with the unveiling of the 14 housemates.

    The housemates were CocoIce, Efe, Marvis, Bisola, Marvis, Uriel and Tboss

    Others were Soma, Miyonse, Gifty, Bally, TinTallTony, Bassey and Debie-Rise.

    However, two fake housemates that were sent into the house to spice up the show. They were Jon Ogah and Ese Eriata.

    By the tenth week, nine of the real and the two fake housemates were already evicted from the house, leaving the top five for the grand finale.

    The top five were Efe, Bisola, Marvis, Tboss and Debie-Rise.

    Among the top five, three, Marvis, Debie-Rise and Tboss were evicted early from the house on Sunday, leaving Bisola and Efe to contend for the grand prize.

    Efe was ultimately crowned, with Bisola the first runner up.

    The last time Big Brother Naija was organised was in 2006 when Katung emerged winner.

     

  • #BBNaija: Soma, Miyonse visit indomie office

    #BBNaija: Soma, Miyonse visit indomie office

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  • BBNaija: Soma, Miyonse go home

    BBNaija: Soma, Miyonse go home

    Eviction hammer hits two of the housemates who were nominated for eviction Sunday evening. They are Soma and Miyonse.

    But just before announcing the two who had the least number of votes from fans, Biggie played another pranks, which suggested the three were going home. Ebuka had asked them to leave the house, one after another. Efe was the first to be shown the door, followed by Soma and Miyonse. This brought tears to the eyes of, especially the ladies in the house. But they were only meant to gather in the holding room,  from where the real evictees were announced.

    Soma
    Soma

    When Soma joined Ebuka on stage, he said he didn’t expect to leave that early, but guessed it so happened because he was a threat to most of the guys in-house.

    He was shown a short clip of his activities in the house, especially his moments on the guitar.

    He noted that there was nothing he did in the house that was a game, as he tried as much as possible to ‘keep it real’, including his kiss with Gifty, which he said happened unexpectedly.

    All through his interview on stage with Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, he was still emotional, fighting back tears.

    A Pastor and Musician’s son and a good singer himself, Soma has opened for several high-profile acts. He was inspired by his mom who also encouraged him to pursue a career in Music. He’d started studying at Port Uni but decided to defer his studies and focus on Science when he resumes since he loves gadgets. He’s said to be in a long-distance relationship.

    Miyonse, who was so sure of remaining in the house despite his nomination said he is very disappointed to have been evicted.

    Miyonse
    Miyonse

    He said the guys nominated him because he was always around TBoss. He disclosed that his association with TBoss begun way before the Big Brother House.

    He was eventually told by Ebuka that TBoss was among the guys that nominated him for eviction. As much as he tried to suppress his disappointment, he felt so uneasy, but agreed it was all about the game.

    He said there was no problems going back to his girlfriend,  because she gave him her permission to play the game and keep it as real as possible. And as for TBoss, they will always be friends.

    The last born in his family, Miyonse took to cooking by chance after his mother made sure that he spent time with her in the kitchen. That quickly led to him cooking for his schoolmates and before he knew it he was in Culinary School and today he’s head chef. He’s been in a relationship with his girlfriend, also a chef, for two months now. He hates being taken for granted.

    With nine weeks to go in the reality show, the race for N25 million and a brand new Kia Sorento car continues for the remaining 12 housemates.

     

     

     

  • BBNaija: Who goes home tonight

    BBNaija: Who goes home tonight

    …As Seyi Shay performs at live eviction show

    With the clock ticking towards the first real eviction of one or two Housemates in the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality show, scheduled to hold this evening, there have been some uneasy feelings among the Housemates.

    Last night’s party and its raunchy aftermath brought the contestants closer like never before, and some of them now wish they did not nominate the others for possible eviction.

    Although Port Harcourt boy and music enthusiast, Soma, has shown little emotions about his nomination, just as TBoss’ ‘loverboy’, Miyonse, would not say much to his colleagues about what he thinks his chances might be, two times Head of House (HoH) and funny character, Efe, gave some parting words after being tipsy from last night’s party, just in case he is shown the door in tonight’s eviction. Efe would want them to see themselves as celebrities already for making it to the BBN house out of the thousands that were auditioned for the show. He said he had come to bond with every housemate so much that he forgot they were all in a game to win the N25 million prize money.

    Meanwhile, when Biggie invited the trio to the Diary Room in separate chats, they were all optimistic that their fans would vote to keep them in the House.

    Igwe Efe was the first Housemate summoned by Biggie, and though he admitted that he was anxious about the possibilities of going home tonight, he was also somewhat confident that he was not going to be evicted tonight.

    Miyonse was called in next and he believes he had done enough to save himself from possible eviction tonight. He said he has been himself in the last two weeks and he felt that was enough to keep him in the House for atleast another week.

    Soma had almost the same answer for Biggie when asked if he felt confident about his chances of avoiding eviction tonight. He would like to believe he has done enough to guarantee him a stay of eviction, but also admitted that he was a bit apprehensive about his chances of staying on in the Big Brother House.

    Last night’s party which was powered by Legend Extra Stout, had DJ Waxxy treating the Housemates to a thrilling collection of old and new Nigerian songs. But that was more like a valedictory gig for whoever will be going home tonight.

    For fans of the show who will be glued to their televisions for the much anticipated eviction show this evening, Nigeria’s very own Sheyi Shay will be on stage to thrill the audience with an electrifying performance before the eviction process commences.

  • How BBNaija contestants voted themselves for eviction

    How BBNaija contestants voted themselves for eviction

    After last Sunday’s twists where two supposed evictees were pardoned and the introduction of two new contestants, tension resumed Monday after three members were put up for possible eviction. They include the likeable Efe, amorous Miyonse and music devotee Soma.
    It was the eighth day of the show and Biggie gave each housemate 45 seconds to make their nomination decision, leading to a gloomy feeling afterwards.
    Only the two new housemates; Debbie-Rise and Bassey were exempted from nominating and being nominated.
    Biggie kicked off the first live nomination show by calling Bally into the Diary Room. And there was no time wasted as Biggie asked Bally to give his two nominations in 45 seconds – same for the 11 other old housemates.
    Bally voted out Miyonse and Soma; Bisola voted out Miyonse and Gifty; Kemen voted out Miyonse and Soma; TBoss voted out Miyonse and Gifty; TTT voted out Gifty and Miyonse; Uriel voted out Bisola and TBoss; Miyonse voted out Kemen and Marvis; Marvis voted out Miyonse and Gifty; Soma voted out Kemen and TTT; Gifty voted out CoCoIce and Bisola; Efe voted out Miyonse and TBoss while CoCoIce voted out Miyonse and Soma.

    In all, eight housemates nominated Miyonse, including his presumed girlfriend, Tboss. Gifty got four nominations, while Soma ended up being the third housemates with the highest nominations with three nominations.
    However, as is the tradition on the show, the Head of House must save one of the three and replace him or her. With the task of ‘save and replace’ rested on CocoIce as Head of House, she saved Gifty and replaced her with Efe.
    The decision was shocking to most fans of the show who want Efe to remain in the competition for the prize of N25 million and a brand new Kia Sorento car.

  • How contestants of BBNaija voted themselves for eviction

    How contestants of BBNaija voted themselves for eviction

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  • Queen Sassy Soma visits Alma mater

    Queen Sassy Soma visits Alma mater

    CLASSES were suspended and drums rolled out to celebrate the coming of the 2015 winner of the Face of Candy City, Queen Sassy Somma, when she visited her alma mater, Gracewell Academy, in Surulere Local government of Lagos State.

    Somma, who arrived the school at 10:30am with her convoy and members of staff of CandyCity Entertainment, said she visited her alma mater to motivate, encourage and inspire the students there.

     “This is my school, I am proud to be here today. I am here to encourage you to be focused, determined, strong, inquisitive, bold, creative, versatile, studious name it, be the best at whatever choice of discipline whether science, commercial or art variety is the spice of life, blend into whatever situation, environment or circumstances you find yourself. I’m a science product but while I was here, I won Miss Gracewell for 2007/2008 academic session. I was also named the social prefect the preceding year. I can go on and on. The essence of the whole story is to make you work hard at every point bearing in mind that a true scholar or a qualified scholar is a rich blend of take for instance fruit juice, would you rather take smoothie a blend of raspberry, pear, blackberry, plump, or just mango juice. Cause variety is the spice of life,” said the beautiful queen.

    The principal of the school, Dr. Mrs Nebechukwu, said they were happy to be remembered by Somma, stating that her visit would encourage some of the pupils to work hard in their academic endeavours.