Big Brother Naija 2020 Lockdown Housemate, Rebecca Hampson AKA Nengi has been advised to stop playing the script ex-bbnaija housemate mercy played that earned her top price last year. Naija News Learnt that Mercy Eke was the winner of last year’s edition, and the first female to achieve such feat. Since the start of the 2020 Big Brother Naija show, many social media commentators have accused Nengi of trying to copy Mercy Eke in all she does.

In a year that featured economic discomfort ahead of consequential midterm elections as Americans began to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, largely dismal economic news that threatened the Democratic Party's grip on power in Washington was overshadowed by major headlines on mass shootings and the Supreme Court’s dismantling of Roe v. Wade. That’s according to data collected throughout the year by Morning Consult, which chronicled public awareness in real time about more than 800 news events in weekly surveys of more than 200,000 registered voters.

ACQUISITIONS Banijay U.K. have acquired “Becoming Elizabeth” producer The Forge. The terms of the agreement include a first look deal for Banijay Rights. The Forge was founded by managing director George Faber and the senior creative team is comprised of Faber, EP and head of business affair Mark Pybus, EP Beth Willis and EP George Ormond.

A former housemate in the Big Brother Naija reality tv show, Florence Wathoni Anyansi, has revealed how she lost an endorsement deal. Wathoni who took to her Twitter account disclosed that the brand withdrew the endorsement because she wasn’t controversial. The reality star used the opportunity to advise her colleagues to continue being themselves as long as it put food on their table. She wrote, “Was going to sign another endorsement before the year ends but they withdrew because I am not ‘controversial’.

From “girl dinner” to “bed rotting," it can sometimes feel tough to understand the ever expanding lexicon used to describe modern life. To keep up with the times, Dictionary.com added or updated more than 1,700 words on Tuesday. The new words reflect many of the trends that have emerged recently, including “barbiecore,” the all-pink aesthetic that blew up following the release of the Barbie movie last summer. The new entries also reflect many of the anxieties unique to our time— “climate breakdown” and “global boiling,” for example, address the severity of climate change and its impact on public health.