Online Special • Created February 5, 2018 11:32

#AsUdeywatch#BBN challenges Big Brother Nigeria on health

 A campaign is growing to challenge the run of reality show Big Brother Nigeria—by asking what you would rather be doing over the 90 days of the show. Run as #asUdeywatch#BBN, the campaign is to use the “BBN noise to call public attention to health issues,” said lead campaigner Diano Eyo-Enoette. E don happen oh […]

#AsUdeywatch#BBN challenges Big Brother Nigeria on health

 A campaign is growing to challenge the run of reality show Big Brother Nigeria—by asking what you would rather be doing over the 90 days of the show.

Run as #asUdeywatch#BBN, the campaign is to use the “BBN noise to call public attention to health issues,” said lead campaigner Diano Eyo-Enoette.

A lot can happen in the 90 days the housemates will live their lives in personal sitting rooms, according to the campaign.

In 90 days, you can fatten cattle for market, the campaign says.

“Start a tomato and cucumber farm and in 90 days, you will have finished harvesting it and taken it to the market.

“Start a broiler farm, and in 90 days you would have finished selling them all off.

“Plant Faro 44 [rice variety] and in 90 days, it will be ready to harvest.”

The focus for #asUdeywatch#BBN is poor budgetary allocation for health, rising malnutrition, threat to immunisation financing, overall maternal and child health care in the country.

The #asUdeywatchBBN has taken off. In the first tweets, the hashtag spoke of children dying from preventable childhood killer diseases while you watched BBN, and got retweets from charities as Save the Children Nigeria.

In the next tweets, it spoke of toddler Hameed on a camp for displaced people in Kabusa needing a shoe to avoid frequent injuries and a woman on a separate camp unable to feed her eight children.

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