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BBC mock Nigeria as Big Brother Naija and Buhari are outside Nigeria
BBC has made a comparison between Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Big Brother Naija, saying that Buhari and have a little in common with a reality TV show .
But both Buhariu and Big Brother Naija have been generating headlines for the same reason – neither of them were in Nigeria.
It turned out that Big Brother was actually being filmed in South Africa – a decision that led Nigeria’s information minister to launch an investigation.
While the howls of protests from outraged Big Brother fans soon died down, the clamour over Nigeria’s leader’s extended medical stay in London is not going away.
President Buhari’s absence comes as Nigeria its worst economic crisis in decades, and faces the threat of famine in north-east Nigeria, which has been devastated by the Boko Haram insurgency.
And unlike Big Brother, there are no constant updates – in fact, President Buhari, 74, has not given a single interview since arriving in the UK.
Pleased to receive Senate President @bukolasaraki, Speaker @YakubDogara and Senate Leader Ahmed Lawan, tonight. pic.twitter.com/O326aJGZNr
— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) February 15, 2017
Instead, the Nigerian public is relying on pictures – posted on Twitter – of their leader meeting senior UK officials as proof that he still is alive.