‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ Halves Star Prize, Dumps Edoho

Popular television game show, ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (WWTBAM?) has halved its star prize money from N10 million to N5 million.

The WWTBAM?, which had gone off air after MTN stopped sponsoring the show, announced its return last week with a new sponsor.

The TV game show is now under the sponsorship of Airopay.

The WWTBAM? told Saturday Beats that it would also be dropping Frank Edoho as host after 13 years of anchoring the TV Show.

“The only difference about the show is that the star prize money has reduced from N10m to N5m. Also, it is very likely that we are not going to use Frank Edoho as our anchor. We are not dropping him because we had any issue with him. I think he feels it is time to go and find other endeavours.

“For now, our viewers would only be able to play on the MTN platform till we are able to sort out ways whereby they can play from any network provider and that would be resolved very soon. We are under no obligation to play on the MTN platform alone.

“Airopay is thrilled to partner with Ultima Limited, whose passion and dedication to quality and world class productions are well known, by sponsoring the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Nigeria game show. Airopay is honoured by this partnership. Airopay and Ultima are convinced that the synergy between Airopay and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire game show will be mutually beneficial,” Saturday Beats gathered.