By Rosemary Caleb
Chidinma Adetshina has won Miss Universe Nigeria 2024,
The former Miss South Africa hopeful represented Taraba State at the beauty pageant beating 24 other contestants to clinch the crown. at Eko Hotel and Suites on Saturday night.
The 23-year-old beauty queen, recently withdrew from the Miss South Africa pageant following allegations of fraud and identity theft levelled against her mother by the South African Authorities.
Before withdrawing from the competition,she was reported to be the most popular contestant with the highest number of votes.
As Miss Universe Nigeria, Chidinma will represent the country at the Miss Universe 2024 pageant, scheduled to take place later this year in Mexico.
Some other contestants who emerged winners in the night were Miss Anambra as the first runner-up also known as Miss Supranational and Miss Ondo, the second runner-up known as Miss Lush.
Miss Rivers, Miss Kwara also won special awards.
The top model award of the night went to Miss Oyo while Miss Imo won Best Costume of the night. Miss Abuja also won Best Talent of Award.
The top 10 were Miss Kwara, Edo, Taraba, Anambra, Ogun, Plateau, Lagos, Rivers, Ekiti and Ondo while Taraba, Rivers, Edo, Ondo and Anambra secured the top five spots.
Miss Taraba being among the first three with the highest votes emerged the new Miss Universe Nigeria as the judges revealed.
Adetshina, “a law student, was the subject of vicious, xenophobic attacks on social media since she was announced as a finalist in July, with many — including cabinet ministers — questioning her credentials because of her Nigerian descent.”
She arrived in Nigeria a couple of weeks ago at the instance of the organisers of the pageant and expressed her desire to win the contest.
