It's a common knowledge that the popularity of most beauty queens decline drastically shortly after their reigns.
We
have had so many beauty queens in Nigeria. Some of them married and
relocated abroad to join their hubbies, such as Chinenye Ochuba, Sabina
Ume, Sylvia Edem, Regina Askia, etc.
For most of them, when they relocate, little or nothing is heard about them.
Even most of those that settled here in Nigeria, seem to have gone into oblivion.
The
proliferation of different categories of beauty pageants in Nigeria is
not helping matter. Every year we hear of such pageants as:
*MBGN
*Miss Nigeria
*Miss Bold & Beautiful
*Most Beautiful Face in Nigera
*Miss Aso Rock
*Miss Teen, to mention just a few.
In
as much as quite a number of ex beauty queens seem to have gone into
obscurity, there are few who would always be remembered because of the
controversies that trailed their reigns. Age falsification scandal has
always been a recurrent decimal in the Nigerian beauty pageantry.
*In
1981, Miss Nigeria Tokunboh Onanuga was demoted after a flaw was
discovered on her WAECcertificate. The West African Examination body
also states on their Twitter account, “Tokunbo Onanuga Miss Nigeria 1981
demoted for having fake WAEC results.”
*In 2001, Ama Valerie
Perterside, dethroned Miss Nigeria, lost her crown June 15 after a
five-man panel found her guilty of falsifying her age and certificate.
The first runner-up Amina Ekpo took over the crown. Ama also falsified
her educational qualification in addition to reducing her age with 4
years, so as to meet up with the criteria for the pageant.
*Isabella
Ayuk MBGN 2012 was also involved in age falsification scandals. It
became a lot more confusing when the organisers announced that 1st
runner up DiametteCharles will go for Miss World while Ayuk goes to Miss
Universe.
*Iheoma Nnadi the current MBGN was recently enmeshed in age falsification scandal but she managed to wriggle out of it.
Here are the top 10 most popular/outstanding ex beauty queens in Nigeria.
10 ANNA BANNER
She
represented Bayelsa state and won the MBGN in 2013. She's still
relevant as she has gone into acting which would obviously help her to
remain in the limelight.
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