A Nigerian medical doctor and research scientist, Dr. Uju, has some words for the organizers of the Big Brother Naija Reality show.
According to her post on Facebook, apart from the mouth-watering profit the companies sponsoring it stands to get, the said TV reality show has no single positive impact on the Nigerian citizens neither does it have on its dwindling economy.
She went further to quote her life’s story as one that was impacted by an award she had one earlier in secondary school and how it shaped her into becoming who she was today.
In contrast, she decried the impact of the reality tv show on the young populace of the nation, stating that it did nothing to motivate the youth of the country into becoming useful, productive citizens.
She also added that Nigerians prefer to copy the wrong things and asked why couldnt sustain more productive shows on National TV.
“Why can’t we sustain Dragon’s den, where people like Madam Folorunsho Alakija, Madam Ibukun Awosika, Oga Aliko Dangote, Oga Femi Adenuga and others, would be invited to invest in the potentialities of our youths?
Where you would learn how to conceive and pitch your business ideas before men and women that matter, all on National TV? Why did it leave our screens after a brief appearance in 2008?
Why can’t we copy The Apprentice, where a man like Oga Femi Otedola would organise a twelve week-long gruelling business selection process to educate, motivate and inspire our youths on entrepreneurship and business development, all on National TV?
Why can’t we copy and sustain the right things, biko? With the burden of HIV on the continent, we are still content to advertise f*rnication and ad*ltery on our screens?”
What is wrong with us? Oo gini bu our problem?
“A country is in recession and continues to wallow in it, while we fold our arms, waiting for oil prices to rise and save us from the mess we are in, and rubbish is being put before our faces and our youths are not angry?
There’s a merciless food crisis raging through the country. Malaria is still on a killing spree. GMO products are trying hard to make their way into our food chain. Youth unemployment is still a cackling monster, road accidents are happening as I write this, and we aren’t angry at this useless thing on our screens?”
“Meanwhile, Thank God for men like Tony Elumelu, who has been inviting African youths to come get investments for their businesses.
We need more men and women to do what he is doing.”
“Hear me, friends.
Until programmes championing economic development make it to mainstream media, until we agree to sustain programmes like The Apprentice and Dragon’s den and make them huge things on our screens, until we bring back The Debaters, Zain Africa Challenge and the likes of them, making the winners get the millions of Naira we are currently dishing out to these morally bankrupt folks on BB Naija, until we stop glamorising loads of r*bbish, we would get nowhere!”
She further added that it was clear disgrace that Nigerians youths who should be in competition with their peers from other countries for innovative ideas and engineering marvels are busy arguing over acts of fornication and obsessing over nudity.