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| TVC student Mubarak Alaaya wins 1m Naira on Who wants to be a millionaire Nigeria Children's Edition. |
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The second weekend of the children special on Who Wants to be a Millionaire didn't fail to produce enough
drama, just like the first week which featured a lot of thrills. Children were playing for the millions in the cerebral show
and winnings were expected to go into an education trust fund.
Again the two hot seat winners went away with N1.5m just like the first day when the winning duo hit N1. 5m apart from
the audience play where participants were also able to win some mouth watering amount.
However the second week had its major kindergarten lesson supplied by the presenter, Frank Edoho who seemed to
have been at his best hosting the children version, a show which before now was only played by adults.
That was the situation until producer of the programme, Mr. Femi Ayeni and his team at Ultima Communications decided
to do a special for the children in support of education. His thinking was that education is too big a section to be left to the
government alone. Individuals and corporate organizations, he remarked, should be able to throw in their little
contribution and mitigate the wait on government.
The turn out at the studio of over four hundred children all wanting to be part of the programme is a clear testimony that
the idea was long overdue. Submissions by Olumide Akinlabi, spokesman for the company, about a deluge of enquiring
pouring by parents trying to find out when the next children edition would hold, make a compelling case for the children
version to feature on a weekly basis.
But back in the studio, Edoho is taunting one of the young girls, Idongesit Nkang on the hot seat. The fourteen years old
girl is on the way to winning a million naira but her fate is in the hands of her friend in using one of her lifelines - phone a
friend.
The friend gives an answer but she is not accepting it because the friend had used 'may' in providing the
answer. Smart girl, she got the hint and refused to go along with the answer. She decided to walk away with the N500, 000. Now Edoho asked: Why did you not go along with your friend? If you did so, by now you would be having N1m in your trust fund. She quickly explained that she would not pick an answer where may was expressed.
The lesson: You have to be able to trust your friend sometimes. The other thriller of the day was provided by Mubarak Alaaya of The Vale College Ibadan. Getting on the hot seat, one could almost write him off but he was smart. When he wasn't very sure, he used a life line.
He was never prepared to take any unnecessary risk and was actually on the verge of winning N2m if he did. Quite
interestingly, there was a level of telepathy between him and the mother in the studio who couldn't hide her emotions for most of the time.
It was quite some great camera work during the children special. When it came to that moment when Mubarak had to
take a decision or make a faulty move and see his win plummet down the money tree, he stole some glances at the
mother and told the presenter very frankly that he was walking away with his N1m.
The two week experiment with the children was a great attempt that might blossom into a weekly feature if both sponsor and studio are able to work out an understanding and carry an addition load. But it will be some kind of some community service load to carry since most children who will feature on the hot seat may find Who wants to be a Millionaire a perfect life line for their education. |
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