After reading through her interview on today's Daily Sun, I was moved to have a deep look into Who She Is!
Her display of intelligence, excellent choice of words and the laconic manner with which she answered questions drove me to do a background check on Nigeria's most beautiful Ambassador.
I post this to educate folks "like" me who are not in the know about the academic prowess cum very impressive career history of Amb Bianca Ojukwu.
Note: Her profile is unexpectedly higher than this...
The sixth child of former Anambra governor Christian
Onoh, Odumegwu-Ojukwu was educated in Enugu and Yorkshire,
but spent most of her childhood in rural Udi. She
obtained her A-Levels from
Cambridge Tutorial College, and 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 from a family of lawyers, 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, but
reigned for most of 1989, during which she represented her country in Miss
World andMiss Universe, but achieved greater success at Miss
Intercontinental 1989[5] and
was named Miss Congeniality at the now defunct Miss Charm International in
Russia where she was also a semi-finalist.
In 1989, it was revealed that Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu was
dating former Biafran president
and Ikemba of Nnewi Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a
political associate of her father who was over thirty years her senior. Their
controversial romance was a national talking point in the early 1990s, Odumegwu-Ojukwu
declared later in the year that the pressure of being in the public eye had
become unbearable, causing her to resign as Miss Intercontinental and stated
that her main concern was completing her education as a law student. Her
decision enraged pageant organisers Silverbird who continue to ignore her 1988
reign on the MBGN website.
In 2012, following the death of her husband, the authenticity
of his will, which left most of his assets to Odumegwu-Ojukwu,was questioned,
with several family members describing the documents as "fake". Odumegwu-Ojukwu
has appealed to her critics to allow Ikemba Odumegwu-Ojukwu to
"rest in peace", describing him as a man of honour and dignity whose
legacy should not be destroyed, and claiming that the will was drafted in 2005,
with executors present at the time it was prepared.
After graduating from Law School, Odumegwu-Ojukwu briefly
practised the profession before quitting, and divided her time between her
home, her cosmetics business Bianca Blend and her interior decorating outfit Mirabella.
Although she had stated in interviews her disdain for modelling in the past,
Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu has fronted an advertising campaign for Bianca
Blend. She also established the non-government organisation Hope House Trust,
centred towards rehabilitating juvenile offenders in Enugu.cIn 2011, she was
appointed Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Affairs by president Goodluck
Jonathan, and in 2012 she was named Nigeria's ambassador to Spain.
Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu was married to the Ikemba until
his death in 2011; the couple had three children together. Of her marriage, she
admits that while she was happy to be married to him, she would not encourage
her daughter to marry the same way.
NOTE: Copied from Wikipedia - No Addition or Subtraction
1 comment:
My brother, i love your sincerity. Keep up the good work. Kudos to you, and not forgetting the iconic paragon of beauty, ★Mrs Odumegwu-Ojukwu★
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