Archives Tag: Miss World

Personality Women

April 19, 2022

  Agbani Darego, born on 22 December 1982, is a Nigerian model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World in 2001. She was the first indigenous African to win Miss World. Early life The Abonnema-native, Darego, was born in Lagos, the sixth child to a family of eight children. At age two, her family … Continue reading Women You Should Know: Agbani Darego

By jeremiah

throwback thursday

April 19, 2022

The lore of the Beauty and the Beast was no longer fairy tale on that fateful day, November 21, 2002, when an allusion Isioma Daniel had made that Prophet Muhammed would have married one of the World contestants competing at the pageant which was slated to hold in Abuja filtered into the hearing of extremists, … Continue reading Beauty and the Beast: The Kaduna Riots of 2002

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People Women

April 19, 2022

Agbani Darego is widely known as the winner of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria competition in 2001 and the first native African to win the Miss World competition. The other three Africans who had won the contest before her, Penelope Coelen and Anneline Kriel (South Africans) and Antigone Costanda (Egyptian) are of European and … Continue reading Women You Should Know: Agbani Darego

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Fashion

April 19, 2022

Agbani Darego, the first African to win the Miss World beauty pageant, spearheads another first as she recently announced the launch of her new denim line; an unusual entrepreneurial option for Nigerian beauty queens. Actually it’s just an unusual entrepreneurial option for Nigerians to venture into, generally speaking. Most start clothing lines, or fashion outfits, … Continue reading Agbani Darego To Launch New Denim Line

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