The fifth season of Big Brother Naija has kicked off with a bang!
The new BBNaija season premiered on Sunday, June 19, 2020. Fans of the show are super excited and conversations about the housemates have been running non-stop on social media.
It’s barely been three days, but we have already been wowed by the new housemates and their fabulous style, even as we observed their banter with each other in the house. Let’s not even talk about the relationships that are already getting started!
The Big Brother Naija show host and Betway’s BBNaija ambassador, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu has announced that Big Brother will be introducing a new exchange system. Instead of coins, the housemates will be using a currency called ‘BBNaira’ during their stay in the house.
This time, no housemate can steal coins because each housemate will have their money safely stowed away in a Betway Wallet.
And no, the Betway Wallet is not a bag! It’s an electronic wallet that would display how much each housemate owns on screens within the house. So if a housemate is awarded with BBNaira, their Betway Wallet will automatically be updated with the new amount. When they use up their BBNaira, the reduced amount is reflected on the screens as well.
Kinda like a cool BBNaija bank account, right? We thought so too.
Housemates can also use BBNaira to engage in Sunday shopping, request for privileges, buy immunity, and even buy veto power!
However, housemates can be fined with money from their wallet if they are caught breaking house rules. As Ebuka said:
‘Big Brother is introducing fines. There are some offenses like not wearing your microphone properly, that will make you lose five BBNairas. But there are also rewards, so of course, some good deeds might get the housemates rewards.’
Betway is the headline sponsor of Big Brother Naija season five and of course, this means that they’ll be handling the arena games. While we look forward to the exciting games they will be cooking up, it’s obvious that the arena games are a chance for the housemates to fill up their Betway Wallets with some cool BBNaira.
