Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born | Bianca Odinakachukwu Onoh |
|---|---|
| Title(s) |
MBGN 1988 Miss Africa 1988 Miss Intercontinental 1989 |
| Major competition(s) |
MBGN 1988 Miss Africa 1988 Miss Intercontinental 1989 |
Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu (born Bianca Odinaka Olivia Onoh, 5 August 1967) is a Nigerian businesswoman, politician, diplomat, and lawyer and multiple pageant titleholder, She was Miss Africa and is best known as the first African to win Miss Intercontinental. Formerly Nigeria's Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Affairs and the country's ambassador to Ghana and Spain, she is now Nigeria's permanent representative to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
The sixth child of former Anambra governor Christian Onoh, and his wife Carol, Odumegwu-Ojukwu was educated in Enugu and Yorkshire, but spent most of her childhood in rural Ngwo. She attended boarding school at Ackworth School, Pontefract ,St.Andrews College, Cambridge as well as the Cambridge Tutorial College where she obtained her A- levels .She soon began a combined honours degree in Politics, Economics and Law at the University of Buckingham, but transferred to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka as her father, who was a lawyer, wanted his children to join his firm in Nigeria and insisted she concentrated solely on Law. Following her graduation she attended the Nigerian Law School which eventually led to her call to the bar.
In December 1988, Odumegwu-Ojukwu was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria at the National Theatre Igamnu, Lagos. Prior to this, she had won the Miss Martini contest whilst at college in Cambridge. Bianca went on to win more beauty contests, notably Miss Africa, hosted in Banjul, Gambia, few weeks after the MBGN pageant and the prestigious Miss Intercontinental Pageant hosted in Lagos in 1989. She was also Nigeria's representative at the Miss World pageant held in Hong Kong in 1989 as well as the Miss Universe, Pageant held in Cancun, Mexico. She was named Miss Congeniality at the now defunct Miss Charm International in Russia where she was a semi-finalist.
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