Miss Earth Nigeria

Not to be confused with Miss Nigeria or Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria.
Miss Earth Nigeria
Motto Beauties for a Cause
Formation 2002
Type Beauty Pageant
Headquarters Nigeria
Location
Membership
Miss Earth
Official language
English
President
 Ibinabo Fiberesima
Website www.missearthnigeria.com

Miss Earth Nigeria is an annual national beauty pageant in Nigeria to select its representative to the international Miss Earth pageant.[1][2] The pageant, with the theme "Beauties for a Cause" is organized by AMC Productions,[3] and began sending representatives to Miss Earth a year after the international pageant was established in 2001.[4]

The current titleholder is English student Chinonye Chukwukere. No official pageant was held in 2015; Chukwukere was selected to represent the country at Miss Earth 2015, thus making her Miss Earth Nigeria 2015.[5]

History

Originally, titleholders were winners and contestants of rival pageants Miss Commonwealth Nigeria (Vanessa Ibene Ekeke) and Miss Nigeria (Ewemade Ogbebor), until Miss Earth Nigeria became a pageant in its own right in 2004. The winner is expected to work in collaboration with environmentalist and state parastatals on how to make water safe, check erosion, pollution among others.[6] The pageant also conducts road shows to educate people on the three R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle).[7]

Nigeria produced its first Miss Earth semifinalist when Stacey Gavey entered in the top 16 in 2007,[8] as did Uko Ezinne the following year.[9][10]

The president and national director of the pageant is Ibinabo Fiberesima,[2][11] a pageant veteran who is now a Nollywood actress.[12][13]

Titleholders

Color key
  •      Declared as Winner
  •      Ended as runner-up
  •      Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Below are the Nigerian representatives to the Miss Earth pageant according to the year in which they participated. The special awards received and their final placements in the aforementioned global beauty competition are also displayed.[4]

Ufuoma Ejenobor, winner of the first Miss Earth Nigeria pageant in 2004
Year Miss Earth Nigeria Placement Special awards
Philippines 2002 Vanessa Ibene Ekeke[14] Unplaced
Philippines 2003 Eva Ewemade Ogbebor[12] Unplaced
Philippines 2004 Ufuoma Ejenobor[15][16] Unplaced
Philippines 2005 Ethel Okosun [17] Unplaced
Philippines 2006 Ivy Obrori Edenkwo[18] Unplaced
Philippines 2007 Stacey Garvey[19] Top 16[8]
Philippines 2008 Uko Ezinne[9] Top 16[10]
Philippines 2009 Nkesi Gift Okandu Dethroned [20] Unplaced
Philippines 2009 Modesta Alozie Replaced Okandu [21][22] Unplaced
Vietnam 2010 Inarah Anthonia Isaiah[23] Unplaced
Philippines 2011 Munachi Uzoma Unplaced
Philippines 2013 Marie Miller Unplaced
Philippines 2014 Damola Akinsanya Unplaced 1st Best Teacher
Austria 2015 Chinonye Chukwukere Unplaced
Philippines 2016 TBA TBA

Controversy

In 2009, Law student Nkesi Okandu was dethroned by pageant organisers after she refused to compete in Miss Globe International as opposed to Miss Earth. Fiberesima later claimed that she had received threatening phone calls from Okandu's family who argued that her substitution was unfair. The newly crowned queen was labelled "rude" by the organisers, and was forced to resign after just two weeks, allowing second-place winner Biochemistry student Modesta Alozie to compete at Miss Earth instead, and reign as Miss Earth Nigeria for the remaining eleven months. It has since been argued that this was a plan to eliminate the winner, noting that while Okandu had signed her contract on September 25 (the same day she was asked to compete in for Miss Globe International), Alozie was already being credited as the winner of Miss Earth Nigeria on the Miss Earth website as early as September 22.[20]

Munachi Uzoma, who won the pageant in 2011, accused the organisers of breach of contract following their failure to give her the N1000,000 cash prize and brand new car, and disclosed that some of her predecessors also suffered similar treatment.[24]

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Riche (22 December 2011). "Preserve the Earth, Preserve the man". Feminaire Magazine. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  2. 1 2 All Africa Global Media, News (7 November 2011). "Nigerian Showbiz Flair Tit Bits [analysis]". Middle East North Africa Financial Network. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  3. ↑ News, Miss Earth Nigeria (1 April 2012). "About Miss Earth Nigeria". Miss Earth Nigeria website. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  4. 1 2 West, Donald (31 March 2012). "Miss Earth country participation lists". Pageantopolis. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  5. ↑ Meet Vivian Chinonye Chukwukere
  6. ↑ Ibinabo Fiberesima searches for Miss Earth Nigeria 2013
  7. ↑ Green pageants: Beauty and the Earth
  8. 1 2 News, GMA (13 November 2007). "Fil-Canadian Jessica Nicole Trisko crowned Ms. Earth". Philippine Entertainment Portal, GMA Network News. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  9. 1 2 News, Jamaica (19 November 2008). "Miss Earth Post Coronation, November 9, 2008, Philippines". Jamaicans.com. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  10. 1 2 Trung, Thanh (23 October 2008). "Miss Earth 2008 thuộc về Hoa hậu Philippines". Theo Thể Thao & Văn Hóa, Vietnam. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  11. ↑ Olomu, Clemetina (24 June 2007). "Nigeria: Did the Zeb Ejiro And Ibinabo Love Story in Phillipine [sic] Turn Sour?". All Africa. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  12. 1 2 News, Nigeria Films (3 December 2006). "Ibinabo Fiberesima". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  13. ↑ "Ibinabo Fiberesima". Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  14. ↑ News, Woman of the Earth (20 October 2002). "Miss Earth 2002". Woman of the Earth. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  15. ↑ News, Nigeria Films (19 April 2009). "Acting's cost me my modelling career". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  16. ↑ News, Nigeria (6 March 2011). "Biography Of Ufuoma Stacey Ejenobor". Nigeria Movies Review. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  17. ↑ News, Woman of the Earth (23 October 2005). "Miss Earth 2005". Woman of the Earth. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  18. ↑ News, Woman of the Earth (26 November 2006). "Miss Earth 2006". Woman of the Earth. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  19. ↑ Okonkwo, Chizoba (6 October 2007). "Nigeria: Miss Earth to Work With the Indigent". AllAfrica.com. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  20. 1 2 Miss Earth Pageant: A betrayal from home
  21. ↑ Gomez, Carla (10 November 2009). "Let's go green, beauties call". Visayan Daily Star. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  22. ↑ News, Philippine Daily Inquirer (12 November 2009). "Negros Occidental hosts 26 Ms Earth candidates". Cebu Daily News. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  23. ↑ News, Vnmedia (23 November 2010). "Người đẹp da đen nổi bật tại Miss Earth 2010". Biethet.com. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  24. ↑ Miss Earth Accuses Organisers Of Breach Of Contract

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