Chidimma Adetshina, represented Taraba State, has emerged winner of Miss Universe Nigeria 2024 pageant.
According to earlier reports, Adetshina was forced to withdraw from South African beauty pageant due to xenophobic backlash and rejection over her nationality.
The 23-year-old law student came to Nigeria afterwards, accepting to participate in the Miss Universe Nigeria 2024 pageant competition.
Guy Murray-Bruce, President of Silverbird Group, organisers of the competition, announced Adetshina as the winner at the grand finale which held at Eko Hotels & Suites, Lagos, on Saturday night.
The competition had a total of 25 participants.
Miss Adetshina, earlier stated in an interview with ARISE NEWS, that she believed that her being invited to take part in Miss Universe Nigeria is a second chance given to her to achieve one of her biggest dreams and goals, which is pageantry.
Adetshina said, “I am so excited, I just feel like this is a second chance in achieving one of my biggest dreams and my biggest goals, and I’m really excited. I’ve always wanted to be a model, I wasn’t really educated on pageantry and all of that.
“When I first knew what pageantry was, it was in 2017, and that’s when I told myself I want to be the next Miss Universe. So, for me, it’s just a thing of I had goals and I set them for myself, and I’m here to achieve them. So, I think I’m just aligning with what I’ve always wanted to do, and I’m really grateful for that.”
However, when asked if she would have participated in the pageant if she was not invited, she said, “No, I wouldn’t, because I wouldn’t have known if I was able to. And also, it has been long since I’ve been here (Nigeria). But I also saw the comments and I was like, maybe this is something I should try out, but then, obviously, the invitation came out and I was really excited that I was given that opportunity, so that’s why I took it as quick as possible.”
Despite that, she said, “Ever since I’ve gotten here, I’ve only received so much love and encouragement from all of the girls. So, I came in here thinking that a lot of them will feel some type of way about the invitation and about me actually coming, but I can guarantee the words of encouragement, the support I’ve been given by these amazing women has been there, and I’m just really happy that they accept me, and that they are not feeling some type of way after receiving all the critiques and the comments about this advantage that people might feel that I might have had.
Chioma Kalu
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As South Africans we're happy for her. She has now represented the country where she truly belongs and the victory is theirs to enjoy.
Shut up and get out
It's a shame you remain slaves to the whites and transfer aggression to your fellow blacks.The whites messed up you guys with drugs,making you guys lazy and becoming economic refugees in your own country.You cant riot against the whites and take back your country.Its,transferring your aggressions on other hard working Africans like Nigerians,that's all you do.So you can loot their investments and head to the next available drug dungeon to top up.Wake up.Use your heads .Or enjoy your eternal slave status in your "so called" rightful country...🤨🙆🏾
My child, we're not the ones drowning in the ocean trying to get to Europe, you are. And we sure as hell aren't the ones being shot by Libyans for fun while also being enslaved. Since 1960 you've had your country and what have you done with it? Nothing. It's s wasteland like all the other countries surrounding you. While countries around the world ban your passports and declare you as undesirables, we have the red carpet being rolled out for us. Our universities, the very finest and best on this continent are flooded with recruiters from every corner of the globe vying for SA talent.
Who messed you up? Why are you running around the world committing all sorts of crime? Why are your countries not pleasant places for yourself to be in? Why do you think we should accept your attempts to teach us to hate whites. We hate the political ideology of the previous government. We defeated them. We hate some of what our current government is doing - like giving foreigners a free hand to do as they please in our country. We'll get them to change it. We don't hate people because they're black or white. Use reason to convince us, not racial sentiment, because that borders on manipulation and we won't be manipulated into doing anything we don't agree with. Your arguement of South Africans being slaves to whites is tired and unfounded. Try something else.
You need help.
funny how you people accept and worship your oppressors but hate people who look like you and fought with you during your time of need.
they keep you concentrated on Nigerians or other Africans while bleeding you dry. The whole Africa stood by you till your freedom especially Nigeria and now they're your enemy.
you are still slaves
Please say it louder, so South Africans will hear. How can you hate ur fellow Blacks & favour White people?🤷♂️
White South Africans aren't placing spikes on highways, our fellow blacks are, white South Africans aren't dealing drugs and committing 60% of all violent crime in this country, our fellow blacks are. That's why we favour them today over you and will always favour them over you.
You're on point. White South Africans and the economic infrastructure they laid should be the reason South Africa is a force to reckon with both in Africa and the world, so why attack them ? On the other hand, black Africans both in South Africa, Nigeria and elsewhere seem seem to be selfish, corrupt, shortsighted retrogressive thinkers, hence their high perchance for running down their respective state economies, plunging their own people into a life of hardship and poverty.
Black South Africans are 85% if SA's taxpayer base, I don't know what your issue with us is. At the end of the day we're not fleeing to people's countries and crossing borders under the cover of darkness and we sure as hell aren't on dingy boats fleeing to Europe. We're in our country enjoying the 1000 KFCs that the Americans built for us and washing them down with the lovely Starbucks coffee that again, Americans gave to us. Nigerians should focus on other low GDP countries like Burkina Faso and Mali - those are your peers. I mean you can't even buy brand new Mazda ffs
They do so because whites are sustaining their living. South africans can't survive on their own they will die of hunger they rely on white people's dieology for a living and they became employees. A majority of them are lazy and naive. So if other nationalities be amongst them they feel threatened and outsmarted because they're just prone to be. That's why they're xenophobic.
Nigeria openly traded with the apartheid regime for decades, so did Kenya and a bunch of other countries on the continent. South Africans aren't blind to your betrayal, and please don't take today's kindness for weakness, but do enjoy it while it lasts.
You need help for making this a race issue. Her mother was disrespectful towards the whole off South Africa when she committed her criminal act.
We never sold South Africa to any foreigner to come here and do as they please. Instead we welcome them here to grow the country with us and to experience our hospitality. Thanks to the foreigners, African and non-African who do that. However, foreign criminals are not welcome. They'll never be. Few to no South Africans left this country during apartheid to commit crimes in other countries. Even fewer ran away from South Africa seeking asylum in other countries. Instead we faced our oppressors head on and we defeated them. You instead choose the cowardly option of running away from your oppressive, corrupt African governments to countries like South Africa to abuse our kindnesses, but we've had enough. We're calling you out now and it obviously leaves you unhappy to the point where you call us xenophobic for expressing our unhappiness with your behaviour. Do you want to be our new oppressors? We won't allow it. Call us all the names you can think of, but you won't oppress us and we won't allow you to do as you please in our country. Shame on you for even thinking we should allow you that simply because you're African. Try that lawlessness elswhere. Let me tell you this - you need help. You need to wake up and make your own countries livable so that you don't need to constantly seek refuge elsewhere. Don't try to govern South Africa remotely. We have a country to build here and we can do it without people like you. Fix your own countries first.
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