BBNaija Season 11 Housemates List: Names, Ages, States and Occupations

Big Brother Naija Season 11, tagged Show Ya Sef, premiered on July 26, 2026, introducing 24 new housemates competing for a record ₦160 million grand prize under host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu.

The cast spans lawyers, pharmacists, developers, models and entrepreneurs from across Nigeria, each entering Biggie’s house with a distinct personality and game plan built for the season’s upside-down format.

Casting for BBNaija has followed a discernible pattern over the past several seasons: producers no longer chase pure telegenic appeal alone; they build a cast around friction points, pairing quiet strategists with loud extroverts, romantics with self-declared game-focused players, and at least one or two contestants whose professional background (law, tech, pharmacy) signals a different kind of viewer appeal than the usual influencer archetype.

Season 11’s lineup reflects that same calculus, and understanding each housemate’s background is the fastest way to read where the season’s alliances, rivalries and showmances are likely to form.

The Female Housemates

Mercedes

Born Ijeoma Emi, Mercedes is a 28-year-old performance artist and massage therapist from Delta State.

She entered the house promising authenticity, confidence and vulnerability, a framing that quickly proved consequential: Mercedes became one of the first two housemates evicted from the season, alongside fellow contestant Martins, an early exit that surprised sections of the fanbase given how much pre-season attention her profile drew.

Abi

Whose full name is Abisola Abi Ayoola, Abi is a 25-year-old model and chef from Osun State who also speaks Italian. Married and self-assured, Abi has been one of the season’s more visible strategic players, later emerging as Head of House and steering her team, Boosted Odds, through the immunity process during the show’s fourth week.

Neche

Born Chinaecherem Neche Maduagwu, Neche is a 25-year-old lawyer and entrepreneur from Anambra State. A self-described overthinker who values solitude to recharge, Neche represents the professional-class contestant archetype BBNaija has increasingly favored, contestants whose credentials outside the house give producers a built-in narrative about ambition colliding with reality-television chaos.

Sheba

Real name Faith Sheba Gamde, Sheba is a 32-year-old broadcaster from Plateau State known for voice imitation and animal sounds, a skill set tailor-made for the show’s task segments. She has described herself as selective with affection but intensely loyal to the people she does let in.

Kamsy

Born Kamsy Uzoma, Kamsy is a 24-year-old entrepreneur and event planner from Imo State who considers acting one of her strongest talents. She has been candid about her emotional nature while insisting the house will not catch her unprepared.

Flora

Flora Egbedi, 30, runs businesses across beauty, content creation and bridal services out of Delta State. Outspoken and self-described as brutally honest, Flora entered promising confidence, intelligence and drama in equal measure, the kind of combination that tends to generate the season’s most quoted soundbites.

Bells

Born Isabella Bells Imoh, Bells is a 22-year-old student from Akwa Ibom State who lists reading, bowling and cycling among her interests. She calls herself strategic and calculating, and her early gameplay has largely matched that self-assessment.

Goddessa

Real name Lovette Goddessa Okechukwu, Goddessa is a musician from Abia State for whom performance is second nature. Organizing her own concert ranks among her proudest achievements outside the house, and she has leaned on that entertainer’s instinct since day one.

Oyin

Born Oyindamola Oyin Oshikoya, Oyin is a 22-year-old sales entrepreneur from Ogun State. She describes her bluntness as a double-edged trait, useful for cutting through house politics but occasionally costly socially, and her sharpest asset as an ability to read people accurately.

Bluethopia

Real name Usaku Bluethopia Bantai, Bluethopia is a 22-year-old photographer, model and student from Adamawa State. Quietly confident, she has approached the game with the instincts of someone used to observing a room before entering it.

Nomy

Born Whitney Nomy Chukwu, Nomy is a 27-year-old fashion entrepreneur from Anambra State who has spoken openly about trusting her intuition to read fellow housemates, a skill that becomes currency once alliances start shifting.

Temi Nkem

Full name Temitope Chigbue, Temi Nkem is a 21-year-old Lagos-based student and the first female housemate revealed on premiere night. Bold and lively by her own description, she has positioned herself as a listener as much as a talker, a balance that tends to serve contestants well over a ten-week run.

The Male Housemates

Tram

Born Joshua Tram Alekewumu, Tram is a 24-year-old author and entrepreneur from Lagos who was the first housemate to walk through Biggie’s door this season. Currently engaged, Tram entered stating no interest in romance or distraction, a stance that early episodes have already tested.

Ricky

Real name Patrick Ricky Jumbo, Ricky is a 33-year-old writer and filmmaker from Rivers State, standing 198cm (6ft 6in), a physical presence that matches his self-branding as the annoying entertainer. Outspoken and opinionated, Ricky has quickly become one of the house’s more talked-about personalities.

Chimsom Chuka

Full name Chimsom Chuka-Okoli, Chimsom Chuka is a 26-year-old pharmacist and actor from Anambra State, currently in a relationship outside the house. He later earned finalist immunity, a status that has kept him largely insulated from the season’s early nomination rounds.

Aikou

Born Amyr Aikou Yousufzai, Aikou is a 25-year-old backend developer based in Abuja who also writes. He describes his tolerance for boredom as unusually high, a trait that has made his quieter demeanour occasionally misread by co-stars as detachment.

Cassi

Real name Ezenwoke Cassi Nwosu, Cassi is a 27-year-old entrepreneur and actor from Abia State whose interests include drawing, painting and chiropractic therapy. He has acknowledged his own tidiness and structure can grate on housemates operating on more chaotic schedules.

Martins

Full name Martins Iyeh, Martins is a creative director and model from Kogi State who jokes that mind reading is his hidden talent. Martins became the season’s first male eviction alongside Mercedes, an early departure that left several unresolved storylines, including his budding rapport with other contestants, without a full arc.

Sultex

Born Sultan Sultex Aregbe-Obanikoro, Sultex is a professional dancer, choreographer, casting director and filmmaker from Lagos. He has treated the house as a career platform rather than a detour, and he has been consistent about voicing unpopular opinions when he holds them.

Keivo

Real name Victor Keivo Ikpe, Keivo is a 27-year-old front-end web developer from Benue State who holds a Master’s degree in Disaster Risk Management. Keivo’s hobbies include painting and drawing, and he has said publicly that he pays little attention to outside opinion of his gameplay.

Yusuf

Full name Yusuf Muhammad-Awal, Yusuf is a 27-year-old actor from Kogi State who has said he hopes to earn the season’s unofficial Loverboy title. Boxing, reading and writing round out his interests, and his self-belief has, by his own admission, occasionally rubbed fellow housemates the wrong way.

Araga

Born Oluwaseyifunmi Araga Sosanya, Araga is a 29-year-old fashion model from Ogun State who describes himself as calm, observant and funny. He has framed the house as a chance to step outside his comfort zone rather than simply extend a modelling career.

Barry

Real name Muudumbari Barry Pop-Yornwin, Barry trained as a civil engineer before building a career in fashion and graphic design. The 25-year-old calls himself a romantic who can turn stubborn once hurt, a trait worth watching given how many of the season’s early storylines involve romantic pairing.

Gerard

Full name Gerard Adebija, Gerard is a 23-year-old actor, radio host and content creator from Kogi State who describes himself as a lone wolf. He has said his goal is building new relationships in the house despite that self-branding, a tension that often produces some of a season’s more interesting character arcs.

Where the Season Stands

As of late August 2026, roughly a month into the run, the house has already shed its first casualties, with Martins and Mercedes exiting in the earliest eviction, and the season’s power dynamics have started to crystallize around Head of House rotations.

Abi’s emergence as Head of House in mid-August, which carried immunity for her and her Team Boosted Odds, alongside Chimsom Chuka’s finalist immunity, illustrates how the show’s evolving format rewards both popularity and strategic alliance-building rather than one alone.

For viewers trying to track favorites through the weeks ahead, the housemates whose professional backgrounds double as built-in narrative tension- Neche’s legal training against her overthinking tendencies, Aikou’s tech-industry calm against the house’s emotional volatility, Chimsom Chuka’s off-house relationship against the season’s romance subplots, tend to be the ones producers lean on hardest when engagement dips mid-season.

That pattern has held across BBNaija’s last several editions, and Season 11’s early trajectory suggests it will hold again.