Chuwang was born on 9 January 1982 and grew up in Dogon Dutse, outskirts of Jos, the Plateau State capital in Middle Belt Nigeria.
[2] Chuwang earlier in 2006 while serving in the National Youth Service Corps scheme in Lagos, participated in The Next Movie Star, a Nigerian Reality TV show sponsored by Haier Thermocool in which he came out second runner-up.
In what was to bring him to a broader lamplight, he got into the Big Brother Africa (season 4) race and after beating 24 other contestants from 14 African countries emerged winner, taking home a grand prize of $200,000 on 6 December 2009.
[6] Chuwang was married to Elizabeth "Liz" Gupta, a fellow housemate of his whom he met in 2009 at the Big Brother Africa Revolution House[7] She hails from Tanzania and her late father was Indian.
[13] In May 2016, the Chuwang and his wife alongside former participants in the Big Brother Africa reality show, Uti Nwachukwu and Nkenna Iwuagwu attended the wedding of another colleague, Geraldine Iheme in Lagos.