All hail the queen! Ezinne Akudo wins Miss Nigeria pageant 2013

by Rachel Ogbu

The new Miss Nigeria beauty queen is the gorgeous Ezinne Akudo.

The 22-tear-old emerge the winner of the 2013 Miss Nigeria at the contest yesterday which took place at Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos.

Akudo beat 20 other contestants winning Miss Photogenic as well and with the first position came a N3million cash prize, a car and a trip to California.

The Law graduate from the Abia State University, said: “I am so excited to have won. There were many other pretty girls who contested but I won. I want to thank God for this victory.”

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Daily Times reports:

Miss Congeniality went to Celestine Queen.

Some of the guests, who graced the event included ex-Nigeria international, Jay Jay Okocha, ex-Miss Nigeria, Helen Prest Ajayi, first Miss Nigeria ever, Grace Oyelude who crowned the new Queen, Dakore Egbusan Akande, her husband and Betty Irabor, to mention a few.

The event, which also witnessed a high turn out of captains of industry, high networking individuals and politicians  was sponsored by the Edo State government and hosted by the Ekiti State government. It was  supported  by Aero Contractors, Daily Times, Daar Communications, Genevieve Magazine, Linda Ikeji’s Blog, Studio 24 and Vlisco to mention a few.

The last edition was held in 2011 when Feyijimi Sodipo was crowned Queen.

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