One of the twins’ housemates in the Bbnaija season 9 competition, Wanni Danbaki, popularly known as Wanni, has emerged as the winner of the Innoson car challenge.

As the Nigerian reality competition Television show Big Brother Naija heads towards the grand finale, Wanni won the Innoson car challenge on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

In this year’s Bbnaija titled No Loose Guard, the car challenge was sponsored by Innoson to assess the housemates’ endurance and resilience.

In a post on Instagram, Innoson captioned the challenge, “Biggie said, ‘Let’s spice things up.’ Now it’s a bucket, a bottle of water, and one hand. It’s like a gym session nobody signed up for!”

“Using one hand to hold a bucket of dreams, but their faces say they’re holding onto survival itself. Keep going, IVM Ikenga is worth it!” the caption continued.

The challenge was split into four rounds, with housemates disqualified for failing to complete the tasks.

Eight housemates, including Kellyrae, Nelly, Anita, Sooj, Victoria, Wanni, Ozee, and Onyeka, participated in the challenge, but Wanni ultimately emerged as the winner.

Filled with excitement, Wanni, in an on-air announcement to her twin sister Handi, exclaimed, “Handi, we got a car! Handi, we got a car, our first car baby!”.

The Economic Community of West African States Commission (ECOWAS) has announced a donation of $380 million for public schools and health centres in 18 African countries.

The donation was announced by the Senior Adviser on the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project at the ECOWAS Commission, El hadji Sylla, during a stakeholders meeting in Abuja.

According to Sylla, with the move, the ECOWAS aims to promote a new innovative chain to electrify public schools.

Sylla, who stated the goals of the initiative funded by the World Bank, the Clean Technology Fund, and the Dutch government, revealed that the project will kick off from Nigeria and Benin.

He noted that the project covers 15 countries in the ECOWAS region.

According to Sylla “The cost of the project is $380m, and we want to promote a new innovative chain to electrify public institutions. Our target is to electrify schools and health centres to improve service delivery.

“We are piloting the project in Nigeria and the Benin Republic. The project covers 15 countries in the ECOWAS region and four countries in the Sahel region,” Sylla said.

“We are targeting schools and health centres to improve service delivery,” Sylla said, adding that the project is expected to be completed in five years across all participating countries, with the pilot phase in Nigeria and Benin to be executed within 18 months.

In Nigeria, the initiative will begin with electrification projects in selected schools and health centres in the Federal Capital Territory, Niger, and Nasarawa states,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who was represented at the meeting by Bem Ayangeaor, noted that electrification in Nigeria has seen significant growth.

He, however, attributed the growth to the grants and subsidies flowing into the sector.

“I do not doubt that the rural electrification space in Nigeria, thanks to grants and subsidies, has grown significantly and will soon reach a stage where public support leverages private sector financing at higher efficiencies than it is presently done.

“A stage where the private sector would be more excited in investing in the electrification space because of the benefits to be gained,” Adelabu said.