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Big Brother Naija Season 5 also known as Big Brother Naija: Lockdown was the fifth season of the Nigerian version of the reality show Big Brother. It premiered on 19 July 2020 on Africa Magic and the live feed on DStv channel 198 and GOtv channel 29. Ex-housemate Ebuka Obi-Uchendu from season one returned as host.[1] [2] [3]
The winner of this season is Laycon and he won ₦85 million worth of prizes.[4]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a virtual audition was held to select contestants for the show. Video submissions were received from 20 May to 30 May 2020. During the submission, interested contestants submitted a two-minute video stating why they should appear on the show.[5] At the end of the online audition, over 30,000 contestants showed their interest. Of the 30,000 contestants that showed interest, 20 Housemates were selected.[6]
In the previous season of Big Brother Naija, housemates nominated two of their fellow housemates for eviction and the public then voted for the housemates they wanted to save. In that format, the housemate received the fewest votes would be evicted. In this season, the nomination and eviction format was reversed for the first half only.
Each week, all housemates, except the Head of House and Deputy Head of House, face the public vote. Public voting is opened every Monday night after the Head of House Game and closes on that week's Thursday night.[7] The four housemates who receive the fewest votes will be nominated for eviction by the housemates.
During the live eviction shows every Sunday, the nominated housemates at risk face a Diary Eviction Votes Session to determine who among them will be evicted. In the Diary Room, each housemate votes on one or two of the bottom four housemates who they want to leave. The housemate who receives the most votes is then evicted.[8]
During the sixth live eviction show on Day 42, the host Ebuka announced that the voting system would be switching back to the old one, with housemates nominating who they want to evict and the public voting who among these housemates to evict.[9]
| Housemates | Age on Entry | Occupation | Residence/Birthplace | Day entered | Day exited | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olamilekan "Laycon" Agbeleshe | 26 | Singer and rapper | Lagos | 0 | 70 | ||
| Dorathy Bachor | 24 | Entrepreneur | Lagos | 0 | 70 | ||
| Rebecca "Nengi" Hampson | 22 | Entrepreneur | Bayelsa | 0 | 70 | ||
| Emuobonuvie "Neo" Akpofure | 26 | Ride-hailing app driver | Delta | 0 | 70 | ||
| Victoria "Vee" Adeyele | 23 | Musician | Lagos/London, UK | 0 | 70 | ||
| Ozoemena Chukwu "Ozo" | 27 | Consultant and Entrepreneur | Imo | 0 | 63 | ||
| Timmy Sinclair "Trikytee" | 35 | Creative artist and storyteller | Lagos, Bayelsa | 0 | 63 | ||
| Nelson Enwerem "Prince" | 24 | Model, fashion designer and interior decorator | Lagos/Abia | 0 | 56 | ||
| Terseer Kiddwaya Waya | 27 | Self-employed | Benue | 0 | 56 | ||
| Lucy Essien | 30 | Entrepreneur | Lagos | 0 | 49 | ||
| Erica Nlewedim | 26 | Actress and commercial model | Lagos | 0 | 49 | ||
| Ezekiel Bright "Brighto" Osemudiame | 29 | Sailor | Edo | 0 | 42 | ||
| Florence Wathoni Anyansi | 29 | Fashion entrepreneur and parenting blogger | Karatina, Kenya | 0 | 42 | ||
| Tolani "Tolanibaj" Shobajo | 27 | Media personality | Lagos | 0 | 42 | ||
| Praise Nelson | 28 | Dancer | Enugu, Enugu State | 0 | 35 | ||
| Aisha Umaru "Kaisha" | 25 | Entrepreneur | Sokoto | 0 | 28 | ||
| Eric Akhigbe | 24 | Student, fitness enthusiast and bodybuilder | Lagos/Edo | 0 | 21 | ||
| Tochukwu Okechukwu Tochi | 28 | Rapper and real estate agent | Imo | 0 | 21 | ||
| Boluwatife "Lilo" Aderogba | 23 | Entrepreneur and dietitian | Lagos | 0 | 14 | ||
| Kate "Ka3na" Jones | 26 | Entrepreneur | Rivers | 0 | 14 |
The launch night is marked as Day 0. The day after is Day 1.
The public was voted for their favourite housemate. Voting starts on Monday and closes on Thursday. On Sunday's live eviction show, only housemates at the bottom have been revealed.
Full percentages were revealed on 1 October 2020 on the official website.[10]
| Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighto | 3.52% | 4.20% | 3.76% | 3.86% | 2.68% | |
| Dorathy | 9.30% | DHOH | 10.89% | 8.48% | 8.54% | |
| Erica | 15.60% | 16.20% | HOH | 17.28% | 16.09% | |
| Kiddwaya | 6.33% | 5.98% | DHOH | HOH | 5.62% | |
| Laycon | 24.28% | 26.55% | 27.36% | 25.06% | 24.97% | |
| Lucy | HOH | 4.08% | 7.71% | 5.42% | 4.41% | |
| Nengi | 10.62% | 12.73% | 12.05% | 10.69% | DHOH | |
| Neo | 3.76% | 3.67% | 3.13% | 7.31% | 6.90% | |
| Ozo | 8..84% | HOH | 8.09% | 6.79% | HOH | |
| Prince | DHOH | 5.54% | 4.97% | 3.84% | 7.64% | |
| Tolanibaj | 1.84% | 3.30% | 3.77% | DHOH | 2.75% | |
| Trikytee | 1.61% | 2.29% | 3.47% | 3.58% | 8.80% | |
| Vee | 2.47% | 3.26% | 3.89% | 2.79% | 8.03% | |
| Wathoni | 2.93% | 2.76% | 3.25% | 3.25% | 3.57% | |
| Praise | 1.28% | 2.99% | 4.18% | 1.65% | ||
| Kaisha | 1.63% | 2.41% | 3.48% | |||
| Eric | 1.37% | 1.91% | ||||
| Tochi | 1.82% | 2.11% | ||||
| Lilo | 1.52% | |||||
| Ka3na | 1.28% | |||||
| Voting to Evict | Nominate to Evict | Nominations & votes received | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 Final | |||
| Head of House | Nengi | Lucy | Ozo | Erica | Kiddwaya | Ozo | Erica | Trikytee | Nengi | none | ||
| Deputy Head of House | Wathoni | Prince | Dorathy | Kiddwaya | Tolanibaj | Nengi | Prince | Laycon | none | |||
| Laycon | No Voting | Ka3na Eric | Eric Trikytee | Trikytee Kaisha | Wathoni Trikytee | No Voting | Trikytee Lucy | Ozo Dorathy | Ozo Dorathy | Winner (Day 70) | 5 | |
| Dorathy | No Voting | Eric Lilo | Tochi Eric | Trikytee Kaisha | Vee Trikytee | No Voting | Vee Laycon | Kiddwaya Neo | Runner-up (Day 70) | 6 | ||
| Nengi | Head of House | Ka3na Praise | Kaisha Eric | Kaisha Wathoni | Praise Wathoni | Lucy Laycon | Dorathy Prince | Head of House | Third place (Day 70) | 3 | ||
| Neo | No Voting | Ka3na Lilo | Kaisha Tochi | Bottom Four | Wathoni Praise | No Voting | Kiddwaya Lucy | Prince Dorathy | Fourth place (Day 70) | 1 | ||
| Vee | No Voting | Ka3na Lilo | Eric Kaisha | Kaisha Wathoni | Bottom Four | No Voting | Trikytee Dorathy | Prince Dorathy | Ozo Dorathy | Fifth place (Day 70) | 8 | |
| Ozo | No Voting | Ka3na Lilo | Kaisha Tochi | Kaisha Trikytee | Praise Trikytee | Head of House | Lucy Kiddwaya | Prince Kiddwaya | Evicted (Day 63) | 4 | ||
| Trikytee | No Voting | Ka3na Praise | Bottom Four | Bottom Four | Bottom Four | No Voting | Lucy Laycon | Prince Kiddwaya | Ozo Dorathy | Evicted (Day 63) | 19 | |
| Kiddwaya | No Voting | Ka3na Lilo | Kaisha Eric | Kaisha Wathoni | Vee Praise Praise | No Voting | Lucy Trikytee | Vee Prince | Evicted (Day 56) | 5 | ||
| Prince | No Voting | Eric Lilo | Kaisha Tochi | Kaisha Wathoni | Wathoni Vee | No Voting | Nengi Ozo | Ozo Nengi | Evicted (Day 56) | 6 | ||
| Lucy | No Voting | Eric Lilo | Kaisha Tochi | Trikytee Wathoni | Wathoni Trikytee | No Voting | Nengi Trikytee | Evicted (Day 49) | 6 | |||
| Erica | No Voting | Eric Lilo | Tochi Kaisha | Kaisha Wathoni | Wathoni Vee | No Voting | Vee Laycon | Ejected (Day 49) | 0 | |||
| Brighto | No Voting | Eric Ka3na | Trikytee Eric | Trikytee Kaisha | Trikytee Praise | No Voting | Evicted (Day 42) | 0 | ||||
| Wathoni | Ka3na Praise | Tochi Eric | Bottom Four | Bottom Four | No Voting | Evicted (Day 42) | 12 | |||||
| Tolanibaj | No Voting | Ka3na Eric | Eric Tochi | Trikytee Wathoni | Praise Vee | No Voting | Evicted (Day 42) | 0 | ||||
| Praise | No Voting | Bottom Four | Tochi Eric | Kaisha Trikytee | Bottom Four | Evicted (Day 35) | 11 | |||||
| Kaisha | No Voting | Ka3na Lilo | Bottom Four | Bottom Four | Evicted (Day 28) | 19 | ||||||
| Eric | No Voting | Bottom Four | Bottom Four | Evicted (Day 21) | 17 | |||||||
| Tochi | No Voting | Praise Eric | Bottom Four | Evicted (Day 21) | 9 | |||||||
| Lilo | No Voting | Bottom Four | Evicted (Day 14) | 9 | ||||||||
| Ka3na | No Voting | Bottom Four | Evicted (Day 14) | 11 | ||||||||
| Note | none | 1 | none | 2 | 2, 3 | 4 | 5 | none | 6 | none | ||
| Against public vote | none | All Housemates | Kiddwaya Laycon Lucy Nengi Trikytee Vee | Dorathy Kiddwaya Ozo Prince | Dorathy Laycon Ozo Trikytee | All Housemates | ||||||
| Bottom four | Lilo Eric Ka3na Praise | Eric Kaisha Tochi Trikytee | Trikytee Kaisha Wathoni Neo | Trikytee Wathoni Praise Vee | none | |||||||
| Ejected | none | Erica | none | |||||||||
| Evicted | No Eviction | Ka3na 11 of 16 votes to evict | Eric 9 of 14 votes to evict | Kaisha 11 of 12 votes to evict | Praise 7 of 12 votes to evict | Tolanibaj 2.75% to save | Lucy 8.12% to save | Prince 20.53% to save | Trikytee 4.10% to save | Vee 1.18% to win | Neo 1.94% to win | |
| Wathoni 3.57% to save | ||||||||||||
| Lilo 9 of 16 votes to evict | Tochi 9 of 14 votes to evict | Kiddwaya 24.92% to save | Ozo 19.11% to save | Nengi 15.03% to win | Dorathy 21.85% to win | |||||||
| Brighto 2.68% to save | ||||||||||||
| Saved | Eric 8 of 16 votes Praise 4 of 16 votes | Kaisha 8 of 14 votes Trikytee 2 of 14 votes | Trikytee 7 of 12 votes Wathoni 6 of 12 votes Neo 0 of 12 votes | Wathoni 6 of 11 votes Trikytee 5 of 11 votes Vee 5 of 11 votes | Top 6 74.07% Neo 6.90% Kiddwaya 5.62% Lucy 4.41% | Laycon 41.41% Kiddwaya 16.20% Nengi 13.32% Trikytee 11.19% Vee 9.76% | Ozo 27.97% Dorathy 26.58% | Laycon 50.11% Dorathy 26.68% | Laycon 60% to win | |||