Nigeria: Surviving 12 Hours in the Big Brother Naija House

19 July 2019

Vanessa Obioha was among the few journalists invited to spend a night at the Big Brother Naija House. She gives a vivid account of her time in the newly built facility

We had barely entered the house when the nomophobia kicked in. A colleague kept touching the pockets of his trousers, panicky that he might have misplaced his phone. Another colleague kept saying "I really need my phone." For this reporter, it was more of phantom vibrations -- the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating or ringing when it is not ringing.

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