The ongoing Big Brother Naija, a reality TV show based on the Big Brother TV series in which 12 contestants live in an isolated house and compete for a large cash prize worth $100,000 at the end of the show by avoiding being evicted by viewers has been described as the immoral programme in recent times.
Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie and his Ibadan counterpart, Archbishop Alaba Job have hit at the reality show, concluding that its morally unjustifiable and, therefore, called on relevant authorities to save impressionable Nigerian young ones from obscenities.
Speaking at a recent ceremony put together by Catholic Artistes and Entertainers Association of Nigeria, CAEAN, in collaboration with Social Communications as well as the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, CSN, the twosome called on the CAEAN to stay away from such immoral presentations in the name of entertainment.
They also called on the regulating agency to immediately yank off the programme without any further delay. Former Catholic Archbishop of Ibadan, Archbishop Job, condemned the reality show. According to him, apart from the mouth-watering profit the sponsoring companies stand to gain, the said TV reality show has no single positive impact on the Nigerian citizens neither does it have on its dwindling economy. He added that the reality show only celebrates obscenity, er*ticism and idleness.
The archbishop called on Christians to wake from their slumber and take to their responsibilities by being salt and light of the nation in their thought and actions. “It is time for Christians to know that we are ruining the morality of this nation. Those engaged in this programme get involved in series of immoral acts and they are rewarded. That is very bad. The programme is not projecting our culture as an African nation. Are they projecting immorality for the future and this kind of immorality will ruin us. History proves it, the nations that went amoral all went asunder and the people ruined. If what they are doing is what they want our children to imbibe, then we are working for the ruin of this nation,” he emphasised.
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Tell them. It is sad that the regulatory body allowed this despicable programme to go on. One of the housemate even claimed that she had sex on a pedestrian bridge in Lagos. She is asingle mother of one girl. Tell me the message to her daughter who is was watching. Why is it that in Nigeria people now can do anything no matter how abominable for money...? It is the same reason that more violent crime like armed Robert and kidnapping for ransom is on the increase. Sad! Yet everywhere one sees churches and Mosques and other religious centres.
ReplyDeleteIf this condemnation should have comes from a Muslim clerc in the North, you will have seen comments here condemning the entire Muslims/northerners that they are not social, some will say they hate entertainment. if the christains can condemn alcoholic drinks this way, some families would have been saved from calamities.
ReplyDeletePoliticians embezzle lots of money and donates some of the loot to churches in Nigeria but you guys failed to term that immoral
ReplyDeleteShut your mouth!!! Because you do not listen to news or read news papers doesn't mean they don't say a thing...i wonder why you people always find negatives no matter what others do.. Is BBN moral??. If you have a kid let him watch the program from morn till night and see what he would become.
DeleteYou are condemning the programme while most of you does more immoral and sickening things across Nigeria.Immoral people condemning another sinner
DeleteDer should be a level of decorum wen doing every tin. We are all imoral but 2 make it look like it's a norm Is were I frown @. Der are certain tins dat should be done in secret. we are not animals.
ReplyDeleteI love Islam,No Muslim has ever applied or Participated in any of the Big Brother Series Ever!!!
ReplyDeleteI think this is not a fight b/w Christians & Muslims. It is a fight which both must come together to defeat the monsters destroying our kids future.
ReplyDeleteMay God have mercy....
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