The fifth season of the Big Brother Naija show kicked off on Sunday, July 19, 2020, and in keeping with tradition, the new season was aptly named after prevailing social circumstances – Big Brother Naija Lockdown. Long time followers of the show commended the new look of the house, praising its ambience and attention to detail. However, investigations and sources close to the organisers of the show recently revealed that it cost about N2.5 billion to set up the BBNaija Lockdown house! This figure includes construction costs of over N300 million, N2 billion spent on production equipment such as consoles, cameras, microphones, cables, lighting, audio, and so on. Hundreds of millions also went into the provision of utilities, information technology and safety systems, building modifications, COVID-19 adaptations to the house, etc.

Source: Nigerian Tribune July 30, 2020 23:26 UTC