Big Brother Naija is well known to be the biggest TV show in Africa. It has so far been a major avenue for leading brands to promote their products as well as reinforce awareness for their brand.

Over the years, some global brands have entrusted their branded merchandise to BanOpal, a leading clothing and branded merchandise production and branding company in Nigeria, focused on ensuring brands get quality, creative and beautiful branded merchandise for their Big Brother TV show tasks, as well as Below-The-Line (BTL) brand activations and clothing items for their team members and consumers across Africa. Some of the brands BanOpal have created branded merchandise for on Big Brother Naija are Dano milk, YouID, Lurpak, Arla amongst others. 

BanOpal started off strictly as a clothing brand but as demand increased from its clientele with requests for other branded merchandise, the company had to add all branded merchandise as part of their offerings in order to meet the needs of their clientele from umbrellas to face caps, jackets, overalls, aprons, polos, rain coats, banners, danglers, bus branding, amongst many others. BanOpal was founded in January 2014 by Opaleye Olabamiji Samson who is the CEO and Creative Director. 

The founder and CEO of BanOpal Samson Opaleye is big on corporate social responsibilities which is why the brand is also known to engage in functional activities in line with SDG goals for a better society for all. The Future awards Africa recognised Opaleye as one of the 100 COVID-19 Heroes in Africa considering the response of BanOpal to COVID-19; their team as well as volunteers from ‘Lend a Hand For Africa’ visited Majidun on Saturday 6^th of June, 2020 to donate food items to families in Ikorodu, targeting widows and their children all from a fraction of their face masks net proceeds. 

The team also carried out other functional CSR projects, by donating a contactless hand washing system with a GP tank, created by Jobaye Environmental Solutions, to a local community in Aguda, Surulere, known as mechanic village. This was also funded from the proceeds of trendy facemask sales. The system donated was to encourage continuous washing of hands in order to curb the spread of the COVID-19 Virus.

The team also shared foods donated from supporting brands like Indomie and Dano milk Nigeria with the families at Mechanic village in Aguda. The quality of the hand washing system was loved by the team of Oladele Fajemirokun and they donated 4 of this contactless hand washing system to the pupils of Queens College secondary school Yaba. 

BanOpal strives to be a responsible and trusted brand in the African brand merchandising production industry, for over 8 years the brand has been leading the space with global brands being the core of their clientele from Arla makers of Dano, to Nestle, Nivea, LG, Orange group makers of Delta soap, Top Rite, IITA, Lurpak, Mentos, Chevron, amongst others. The brand’s website www.banopal.com is an ecommerce site which has some retail urban clothing items for simple as well as trendy individuals.