Gulder Ultimate Search Starts Saturday

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For the next 21 days, millions of television viewers across Nigeria and Africa will be  treated to exciting moments of adventure, fun and suspense as the seventh edition of the  hit television reality show, Gulder Ultimate Search, GUS, hits the screen from Saturday.

Already, 12 young, strong and able-bodied Nigerians are in the Omo Forest Reserve in Area  J4, Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State where they will slug it out for the  honour of becoming an ‘Ultimate Hero’.
The contestants–an equal mix of six young men and ladies–emerged successful from tens of  thousands of youth that participated in gruelling auditions held across the country.
There are additional two contenders-a male and female-which was a departure from the  usual 10 contestants in the previous series of the show.
The lucky contestants are:  Oshinmade Adeleke Oluwaseun, 22, from Ogun State; Ahmed   Sabdat  Bamitale, 27, from Kogi State; 23-year old Ebhodaghe Mercy Itohan  from Edo  State; Dandison  Strongface, 22 , from Rivers State; 24-year old, Okorougo Simeon Iruka  from Imo State and 21-year old Anyanwu Chukwuma also from Imo State.
Others are  21-year old ,Oduah Tonia from Delta State; 23-year old Oluwaremi Kunle from  Ekiti State; Kadiri Atiku Mohammed, 23-year old from Edo State; Mbanu Caroline Ukachi,  22, from Imo State. 23-years old Chinenye Ofoegbu Ozioma and 22-year old Oduche Adaobi  both from Anambra state complete the list.
They were unveiled on Saturday 18 September, 2010 at a selection party held at the Lagoon  Restaurant, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Explaining the rationale for the inclusion of the extra two contenders unlike previous  editions of the show, Ageni Yusuf, Corporate Affairs Adviser, Nigerian Breweries plc,  sponsors of the show said it is  in the spirit of the 40th anniversary of the Gulder  brand in Nigeria and the ongoing Golden jubilee anniversary of the country..
Yusuf added that the 12 men and women have already entered the forest so dense even  sunlight struggles to permeate.
The last man standing in this year’s search will go home with a cash prize of N7 million,  a  SUV worth N10 million and N500,000 for  wardrobe  allowance.
Others will go home with consolation cash prizes ranging from N350, 000 and N2.5 million,  depending on the length of their participation in the search. In the event of a woman not  emerging the winner, the ‘Last Woman Standing’ gets an additional N1million.
The maiden edition of the GUS was held in 2004 at Snake Island in Lagos State. The second  edition in 2005 was at the Obudu Hills, in Cross River State. Nifor in Benin, Edo State,  played host to the third edition in 2006. The fourth edition was held in 2007 at the  famous Sheri Hills in Jos, Plateau State. Awgu Hills in Enugu State was host to the fifth  edition in 2008, while the sixth edition in 2009 brought out the tourism potentials in  Omodo forest in Osun State.

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Gulder Ultimate Search 7: The search begins

Months after Emeka Ike was crowned the Ultimate Man in the Gulder Ultimate Search Show: Celebrity Showdown edition, another Ultimate man/woman will emerge in the month ahead as the regular GUS is set to commence.

In an exciting ceremony held in Lagos last weekend, the 12 contestants who would be part of this year‘s GUS were unveiled.

Though it was a night of fun, it was also one of tears for some of the contestants who couldn‘t make it to the final 12. All their hopes of becoming millionaires were dashed when the eventual 12 were called upon.

Holding in Ogun State, this year‘s GUS will see the contestants searching for a personality, instead of an object.

Not only would the eventual winner become a millionaire, he would also go home with a brand new SUV.

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Gulder Ultimate Search Finalists Emerge Saturday

The three week long nationwide search for would be contestants in this year’s edition of  Gulder Ultimate Search 7, will on Saturday, September 18, 2010 produce the top 10 finalists  who would eventually make it to the jungle to square up against one another in a bid to  become the Last Man Standing this year.

The final ten will be revealed at the final selection party holding at the Lagoon  Restaurant, Ozumba Mbadiwe, Victoria Island, Lagos. They are expected to be picked from a  total of 18 contestants who scaled through the regional selection concluded in Lagos last  week.
The journey for the search started on August 10, 2010, when the sponsoring brand, Gulder,  held a press conference to kick-start the highly celebrated Tv reality programme. The press  conference  also served as the media launch where a mock Gulder Ultimate Search was  conducted for the 50 journalists invited for the event.
The journalist that went home with the winning prize was Mr. Babatunde Akinboro, a reporter  from Africa Independent Television (AIT)
Gulder Ultimate Search 7 has been specially packaged in a way that all the 10 contestants  that emerge after the rigorous regional screening would go home with a winning prize, the  least of which is N450, 000 for the first evictee. The last man standing will smile home  with a winning prize of N7 million, a N10 million worth SUV and a wardrobe allowance of  N500,000.
To ensure fair participation from prospective youths across the nation, the country was  divided into four geographical zones namely, Abuja for the North zone, Benin for the South  South zone, Owerri for the East zone and Lagos for the West zone.
Admission, which was through a publicised web address, was free, as long as the applicants  met the set criteria among which were age, height, health, marital status and educational  qualification.
The regional screening, that started on September 1, 2010, came to an end in Lagos on  Friday, September 10, 2010. Screening activities, according to the Gulder Brand Manager, Mr.  Oluseun Lawal, included physical test through running, squatting, swimming, mental alertness  and medical fitness.
At the end, Lawal says, “out of the over  fifty thousand young, athletic Nigerian men and  women who entered for the programme from across the country, 41 of them have made it to the  final screening which comes up at a final selection party in Lagos on Saturday, September  18, 2010.”
The 10 finalists, will be taken to the undulating plains of the Ogun State Forestry  Plantation Project, Area J4, Omo Forest Reserve in Ijebu East LGA, Ogun State to search for  the missing ultimate treasure. “Only these League of Ultimate men and women will enter this  forest so dense even sunlight struggles to permeate. These men and  ladies will battle  against nature and the wild. At the end, one of them who finds the missing treasure will be  crowned ‘THE ULTIMATE HERO’,” said Yusuf Ageni, Nigerian Breweries Corporate Affairs  Adviser..
The maiden edition of the Gulder Ultimate Search was held in 2004  on Snake Island in Lagos  State . The second edition in 2005 was at the Obudu Hills, in Cross River State . Nifor in  Benin , Edo State , played host to the third edition in 2006. The fourth edition was held in  2007 at the famous Sheri Hills in Jos, Plateau State . Awgu Hills in Enugu State was host to  the fifth edition in 2008, while the sixth edition in 2009 brought out the tourism potential  in Omodo forest in Osun State .
In May this year, the Gulder brand came up with the celebrity edition of the Gulder Ultimate  Search which was held at the La Campagne Tropicana Resort, in Ajah, Lagos.The winner was  Emeka Ike,a celebrated Nollywood actor.

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