Nigeria Idol Season 5 Begins Today; March 1

One of Nigeria’s leading music reality shows, Nigerian Idol Season 5 is set to begin airing on both terrestrial and satellite TV stations across the nation from Sunday, March 1, 2015.

The broadcast, featuring mind-blowing performances at the just concluded auditions, will offer quality entertainment to millions of viewers and fans of the family-oriented talent-hunt show from the country’s pool of talented
music talents who participated in the auditions.

Among the terrestrial and satellite TV Stations on which Nigerian Idol season 5 will be aired are NTA, STV, Superscreen, Smash TV, and on selected Startimes stations.

It will be recalled that Nigerian Idol
franchise owners, Optima Media Group (OMG) with show sponsors, Etisalat, Payporte and Dabur Toothpaste recently concluded nationwide auditions for this season in five select cities which included Benin City, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Abuja and Lagos.

Speaking about the Auditions and what the expectations are for the viewing public, one of the celebrity Judges and hit maker, Darey ‘Art’ Alade noted that the
increase in level of competition makes the show all the more interesting.

‘There is a lot of competition, new voices, new faces, I can’t wait to hear them blossom and go up the ranks as we whittle down to the finalists later on as the weeks go by,’ he said.

Nigerian Idol focuses on discovering Nigerian youths with talent in music and giving them a unique platform to take shots at stardom. The eventual winner goes home with N7.5 million cash
reward, a brand new car, a recording deal worth N7.5 million and some high- end devices.

Stay tuned to illuminaija.com as we bring you more as the show progresses