{"id":70774,"date":"2025-07-16T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70774"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:11:40","slug":"bbnaija-2025-kicks-off-july-26-winner-to-take-home-n150m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/16\/bbnaija-2025-kicks-off-july-26-winner-to-take-home-n150m\/","title":{"rendered":"BBNaija 2025 Kicks Off July 26, Winner to Take Home N150m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice Nigeria has announced that the 2025 edition of Big Brother Naija will premiere with a double launch on July 26 and 27, with a record-breaking N150 million cash prize for the winner.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at a press briefing on Wednesday, where organisers confirmed that media personality Ebuka Obi-Uchendu will return as host for the highly anticipated new season.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Ebuka noted that BBNaija has featured 197 housemates across nine seasons, aired for 709 days, and awarded a total of N637 million in prize money since its inception in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s \u201cNo Loose Guard\u201d edition introduced a twist where housemates started as pairs before competing individually.<\/p>\n<p>Kellyrae won that season, becoming the first married contestant to claim the top prize of N100 million.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2025 season, physical auditions were reintroduced and held from May 16 to 18 across selected locations.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations are high as fans gear up for what promises to be another drama-filled edition of Africa\u2019s most popular reality show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; MultiChoice Nigeria has announced that the 2025 edition of Big Brother Naija will premiere with a double launch on July 26 and 27, with a record-breaking N150 million cash prize for the winner. The announcement was made at a press briefing on Wednesday, where organisers confirmed that media personality Ebuka Obi-Uchendu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70776,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774\/revisions\/70776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}