Big Brother Naija season 7

Big Brother Naija
Season 7
Presented by	Ebuka Obi-Uchendu
No. of days	71
No. of housemates	28
Winner	Ijeoma Josephina "Phyna" Otabor
Runner-up	Brian Chukwuebuka "Bryann" Chiji
Release
Original network	Africa Magic
Original release	23 July (2022-07-23) – 2 October 2022 (2022-10-02)
Season chronology
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Big Brother Naija Season 7 also known as Big Brother Naija: Level Up is the seventh season of the Nigerian version of the reality show Big Brother . It premiered on 23 and 24 July 2022 on DStv channel 198/199 and GOtv channel 8/29. ^{[1] [2]} Ebuka Obi-Uchendu returned as the host for the 6th consecutive time. ^[3]

The headline sponsor of the show was Pocket by Piggyvest and the associate sponsor was Flutterwave. ^[4]

According to the organizers of the show MultiChoice, the winner of the season is expected to win a total of ₦100 million grand prize which includes a N50m cash prize and ₦50m worth of prizes from sponsors. ^{[5] [6]}

Auditions

A virtual audition was held to select contestants for the show on 15 May 2022 to 30 May 2022. ^{[7] [8]} Interested contestants were told to record and submit a three-minute video stating why they should appear on the show. ^[9]

Housemates

Housemates	Age on Entry	Occupation	Residence/Birthplace	Day entered	Day exited	Status
Ijeoma Josephina "Phyna" Otabor	25	Actress	Edo State	0A	72	Winner
Brian Chukwuebuka "Bryann" Chiji	24	Singer, songwriter	Imo State	0A	72	Runner-up
Chidimma Esther "Bella" Okagbue	25	Graduate, content creator	Anambra State	0B	72	3thplace
Adekunle Tobilola Olopade	27	Digital marking consultant	Lagos State	0B	72	4th Place
Chinenyenwa Desire "Chichi" Okoebor	22	Exotic dancer, chef	Edo State/Anambra State	0B	72	5th Place
Daniella Utangbe Peters	22	Poet	Lagos State	0A	72	Evicted
Aniekwe Francis "Chizzy" Chidi	28	Student, entrepreneur, farmer	Anambra State	14	68	Left
Rachel Eghonghon Akowe	27	Makeup artist	Ekpoma, Edo State	14	68	Left
Hermes Chibueze Iyele	25	Performance artist, Basketballer	Lagos State	0B	65	Evicted
Segun Daniel "Sheggz" Olusemo	26	Footballer, actor	England/Lagos State	0B	65	Evicted
Henry Olisaemeka "Groovy" Oche	21	Artist, fashion entrepreneur, model	Anambra State	0A	65	Evicted
Oladotun Mofiyinfoluwa Oloniyo	26	Physiologist	Lagos State/Ekiti State	0B	58	Evicted
Osy Allysyn Audu	25	Model	Benin City, Edo State	0B	58	Evicted
Esther Chioma "Chomzy" Ndubueze	22	Entrepreneur	Imo State	0B	51	Evicted
Eloka Paul "Eloswag" Nwamu	27	Digital marketer, content creator	Delta State	0B	51	Evicted
Doyinsola Anuoluwapo David	26	Radiographer	Ondo State	0B	51	Evicted
Gideon Anieti "Giddyfia" Nwawo	24	Engineer, model, fitness trainer	Lagos State/Akwa Ibom State	0B	44	Evicted
Diana Isoken Edobor	33	Project manager	Edo State	0B	44	Evicted
Ayodeji Morafa	31	Pharmacist, digital artist	Lagos State	7	44	Left
Chiamaka Crystal "Amaka" Mbah	23	Healthcare worker	Anambra State	0A	37	Evicted
Modella Gabriella	24	YouTuber, actress, makeup artist	Osun State	7	37	Left
Saviour Ikin "Pharmsavi" Akpan	26	Pharmacist	Akwa Ibom State	0A	30	Evicted
Kesiena Tony "Kess" Adjekpovu	28	Businessman	Delta State	0A	30	Evicted
Ismail Rukuba "Khalid" Ahulu	22	Artist, basketballer, skateboarder	Plateau State	0A	23	Evicted
Ilebaye Odiniya	21	Graduate, entrepreneur	Kogi State	0A	23	Evicted
Bright Chidi "Cyph" Nwekete	27	Tech Designer, Entrepreneur	Imo State	0A	16	Evicted
Christiana Oluwafunke "Christy O" Ojumu	24	Entrepreneur	Ondo State	0A	16	Evicted
Beauty Etsanyi Tukura	24	Lawyer	Taraba State	0A	14	Ejected

The 1st launch night (23 July) is marked as Day 0A. The 2nd launch night (24 July) is marked as Day 0B. The day after is Day 1.

Voting history and nominations table

  Housemates in Level 1 of the Big Brother House (Weeks 1-4).

  Housemates in Level 2 of the Big Brother House (Weeks 1-4).

		Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6		Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10			Nominations & votes received
							Day 36	Day 42				Days 64-67	Final
Head of House		Eloswag	Hermes	Adekunle	Eloswag	Chomzy	Dotun		Hermes	Phyna	Chichi	Chizzy	none
	Phyna	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Adekunle Hermes	Adekunle Hermes	No Voting	Adekunle Allysyn Chomzy	Sheggz Hermes Bella	No Voting	No Voting	Winner (Day 70)		5
	Bryann	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Chichi Adekunle	Amaka Eloswag	No Voting	Chomzy Doyin Eloswag	Hermes Adekunle Bella	No Voting	No Voting	Runner-up (Day 70)		3
	Bella	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Hermes Amaka	Adekunle Chizzy	No Voting	Eloswag Daniella Phyna	Daniella Rachel Hermes	No Voting	No Voting	3rd place (Day 70)		13
	Adekunle	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Khalid Ilebaye Phyna Bryann Groovy	Did Not Vote	Sheggz Bella	Doyin Amaka	No Voting	Bella Doyin Sheggz	Dotun Bella Sheggz	No Voting	No Voting	4th place (Day 70)		21
	Chichi	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Allysyn Adekunle	Adekunle Allysyn	No Voting	Bella Chizzy Rachel	Sheggz Hermes Bryann	Head of House	No Voting	5th place (Day 70)		14
	Daniella	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Hermes Chichi	Hermes Chichi	No Voting	Chomzy Eloswag Rachel	Hermes Rachel Bella	No Voting	No Voting	6th place (Day 70)		4
	Hermes	No Voting	Cyph Christy O Amaka Khalid Phyna	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Chichi Doyin	Doyin Chichi	No Voting	Bella Bryann Rachel	Sheggz Bella Rachel	No Voting	Evicted (Day 63)			17
	Sheggz	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Adekunle Rachel	Chizzy Diana	No Voting	Adekunle Chizzy Rachel	Rachel Chichi Adekunle	No Voting	Evicted (Day 63)			11
	Groovy	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Adekunle Doyin	Adekunle Doyin	No Voting	Adekunle Eloswag Rachel	Allysyn Chichi Dotun	No Voting	Evicted (Day 63)			2
	Dotun	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Adekunle Rachel	Rachel Amaka	No Voting	Chizzy Phyna Rachel	Hermes Adekunle Rachel	Evicted (Day 56)				3
	Allysyn	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Chichi Rachel	Rachel Chizzy	No Voting	Chizzy Chichi Rachel	Bella Sheggz Adekunle	Evicted (Day 56)				5
	Doyin	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Hermes Rachel	Rachel Adekunle	No Voting	Adekunle Chichi Eloswag	Evicted (Day 49)					15
	Chomzy	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Giddyfia Amaka	Amaka Doyin	No Voting	Daniella Doyin Phyna	Evicted (Day 49)					4
	Eloswag	Head of House	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Chizzy Daniella Kess Modella Pharmsavi Amaka Groovy	Doyin Amaka	Doyin Amaka	No Voting	Bella Chizzy Doyin	Evicted (Day 49)					7
	Giddyfia	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Doyin Chichi	Chizzy Amaka	No Voting	Evicted (Day 42)						2
	Diana	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Chichi Sheggz	Chichi Deji	No Voting	Evicted (Day 42)						2
	Amaka	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Adekunle Chichi	Giddyfia Chomzy	Evicted (Day 36)							12
	Pharmsavi	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Evicted (Day 28)									1
	Kess	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Evicted (Day 28)									1
	Khalid	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Evicted (Day 21)										2
	Ilebaye	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Evicted (Day 21)										1
	Cyph	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Evicted (Day 14)											1
	Christy O	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Evicted (Day 14)											1
	Beauty	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Ejected (Day 14)											0
Fake Housemates
	Deji	Not in House	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Diana Doyin	Hermes Doyin	Left (Day 42)							2
	Modella	Not in House	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Hermes Amaka	Left (Day 35)								1
Riders
	Chizzy	Not in House		Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Sheggz Bella	Eloswag Bella	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Hermes Adekunle Chichi	No Voting	Head of House	Left (Day 68)		10
	Rachel	Not in House		Did Not Vote	Did Not Vote	Doyin Sheggz	Hermes Deji	No Voting	Did Not Vote	Hermes Sheggz Allysyn	No Voting	No Voting	Left (Day 68)		19
Note		1 , 2	3 , 4a	4a , 5 , 6	4a , 4b , 7	8 , 9	10		11 , 12	none
Nominated (pre-save and replace)		none							Bella Adekunle Chomzy Doyin Eloswag Phyna Chizzy Rachel	Adekunle Hermes Bella Dotun Chichi Sheggz Rachel	none	none
Saved									Adekunle	Chichi	Daniella Phyna
Against public vote		none	Cyph Christy O Amaka Khalid Phyna	Khalid Ilebaye Phyna Bryann Groovy	Chizzy Daniella Kess Modella Pharmsavi Amaka Groovy	none	Adekunle Allysyn Bella Bryann Chichi Chomzy Daniella Diana Doyin Eloswag Giddyfia Groovy Hermes Phyna Sheggz		Bella Bryann Chomzy Doyin Eloswag Phyna Chizzy Rachel	Adekunle Hermes Bella Dotun Allysyn Sheggz Rachel	Bryann Bella Adekunle Groovy Hermes Sheggz	All Housemates
Ejected		none	Beauty	none
Evicted		No Eviction	Christy O 8.89% to save	Ilebaye 8.51% to save	Kess 11.1% to save	Modella Big Brother's choice to leave	Amaka Most votes by real housemates	Deji Big Brother's choice to leave	Eloswag 6.55% to save	Allysyn 7.7% to save	Sheggz 13.26% to save	Rachel Chizzy Ebuka's choice to leave	Daniella 1.89% to win	Chichi 2.49% to win
			Cyph 14.41% to save	Khalid 10.72% to save	Pharmsavi 18.59% to save			Giddyfia 0.99% to save	Chomzy 8.96% to save	Dotun 7.88% to save	Groovy 14.63% to save		Adekunle 12.36% to win	Bella 15.78% to win
								Diana 1.45% to save	Doyin 11.98% to save		Hermes 15.83% to save		Bryann 26.74% to win
Survived			Khalid 17.66% to save Amaka 19.92% to save Phyna 39.12% to save	Groovy 19.68% to save Bryann 25.18% to save Phyna 35.91% to save	Amaka 22.89% to save Groovy 23.19% to save Daniella 24.87% to save	none	none	Eloswag 2.17% to save Chomzy 2.61% to save Allysyn 2.61% to save Chichi 2.66% to save Doyin 5.34% to save Daniella 5.35% to save Bella 6.83% to save Groovy 7.69% to save Hermes 7.92% to save Adekunle 8.68% to save Sheggz 9.11% to save Bryann 14.85% to save Phyna 21.74% to save	Bella 14.97% to save Bryann 23.05% to save Phyna 34.49% to save	Sheggz 18.62% to save Hermes 18.67% to save Bella 19.92% to save Adekunle 27.23% to save	Bella 16.44% to save Adekunle 17.17% to save Bryann 22.67% to save	none	Phyna 40.74% to win

Notes

• ^Note 1 : During the 2nd launch night on the 24th of July, 2022, Ebuka announced that there would be 2 levels of the Big Brother House. The first 12 housemates would occupy the Level 2 house, while the last 12 housemates would occupy the Level 1 house. ^[10]
• ^Note 2 : In the Head of House games, Big Brother announced to the housemates that only the Head of House was to nominate for the week. However, when the time came for the HOH to make his nomination, Big Brother revealed that there would be no nominations, but it had to be kept secret to the rest of the house. ^[11]
• ^Note 3 : On the Sunday Live Show on 31 July 2022, 2 fake housemates, Deji and Modella joined the season of Big Brother Naija. ^{[12] [13]} Fake housemates can't be nominated and only Big Brother can walk them out of the house. ^[14]
• ^Note 4a : The HOH once again was the only person who could nominate for Weeks 2–4.
• ^Note 4b : Unlike previous weeks, the Head of House had to nominate 7 housemates instead of 5.
• ^Note 5 : On day 14, Beauty got ejected from the show due to repeatedly flouting the rules. ^[15]
• ^Note 6 : On the Sunday Live Show on 7 August 2022, 2 new housemates, known as "The Riders" joined the season of Big Brother Naija: Chizzy and Rachel. According to Ebuka, "The Riders" are basically Big Brother's agents, so they can't win the grand prize. However, they can partake in all activities in the house, can't be evicted and will play until the end. ^[16]
• ^Note 7 : On Day 26, Deji and Groovy swapped levels, i.e. Deji moved to Level 2 and Groovy moved to Level 1.
• ^Note 8 : On the Sunday Live Show on 21 August 2022, it was announced that the Levels were scrapped. This meant that as from Week 5, the housemates had to compete under one house.
• ^Note 9 : On Day 29, Ebuka announced that all nominations for Week 5 were fake. ^[17]
• ^Note 10 : On Day 36, it was announced that they would nominate for immediate eviction by Big Brother. Having the most votes by real housemates, Amaka was evicted. ^[18] Then, all housemates except the HOH were to be against public voting.
• ^Note 11 : On day 43, the housemates had to vote for three housemates instead of two. Also, the Riders could not nominate. ^[19]
• ^Note 12 : On the Sunday Live Show on 11 September 2022, Ebuka announced a new level, called Level 3, where, as from that night, evicted housemates would move to. Evicted housemates, now referred to as House Guests, can no longer compete for the grand prize, but can partake in all house activities except the Head of House games, and are also eligible to earn winnings from sponsored tasks. ^[20]

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