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| Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu..full of grace |
As elegant and graceful woman with
lots of poise, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu continues to celebrate her birthday
today August 5, 2018 , here is a brief profile.
Born 5 August 1968, Bianca Odinaka Olivia Onoh is a Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer,
businesswoman and winner of multiple local and international pageant.
She was Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria and was also Miss Africa
and the first African to be crowned Miss Intercontinental just as she
represented Nigeria at the Miss Congeniality.
Childhood and
education
Bianca is the sixth child of erudite lawyer, Property magnate,
politician, statesman and Late former Governor of old Anambra state Chief
Christian Chukwuma Onoh, Aninefungwu of Enugu Ngwo and his pretty wife
Caroline.
While living in the rural community of Ngwo, she attended
schools both in Enugu Nigeria and in the United Kingdom. She attended boarding
school at Hackworth School, 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 soon relocated to Enugu where she gained
admission into University of Nigeria Enugu Campus. Upon graduation, she went to
the Nigeria Law school and was called to Nigerian bar.
While in Spain as Ambassador of Nigeria. She went into the
prestigious Alfonso X el Sabio University and took a masters degree in
International Relations and diplomacy.
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| Bianca...elegance and poise |
Love for beauty
pageantry
Bianca’s interest in beauty pageantry started very early in her
life yet several of her childhood friends say she has always been a shy kid.. According to them, it is her extreme good looks and carriage and comportment that usually singles her
out to take what many think is hers. As a student of St Andrews Cambridge, she
won the Miss Martini, a college pageant.
Her interest did not end there as she enrolled for the Most
Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant and was in December 1988, crowned Nigeria’s
most beautiful girl at a big ceremony held at the National Theatre, Lagos.
Bianca went on to win Miss Africa, hosted in Banjul, Gambia and
the prestigious Miss Intercontinental Pageant hosted in Lagos in 1989. She also
flew Nigeria’s flag at the Miss World held in Hong Kong same year as well as
Miss Universe held in Cancun, Mexico.
Aside this, she was named Miss Congeniality at the now defunct
Miss Charm International which held in Russia. She got to the semi-final stage.
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| Bianca and Late hubby Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu on their wedding. Photo; SDK |
Marriage to Ikemba
Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
It was after her crowning as Miss Intercontinental and Most
Beautiful Girl in Nigeria that her hitherto secret amorous relationship with
the Ikemba, her father’s associate who was far her senior was revealed. It
became the main controversy of the early 90s period as every newspaper,
magazine or radio and television carried Ojukwu and Bianca..their story and
love escapades. She was urged to give up her crown as MBGN and Miss
Intercontinental by the organizers who felt it was scandalous to their brand.
Her marriage in a celebrated and lavish wedding to Dim
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu shook Nigeria at the time,
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| Bianca with Late hubby |
Business methods and
interests
After her call to bar, Bianca worked for her father but not for
long as she quit so as to give vent to
her new found interest in cosmetics. Her years on pageantry lane had exposed her
to international cosmetics brands. She first set up Bianca Blend, a beauty and cosmetics business which had a
beauty parlor, sauna and spa and Mirabella, an interior décor outfit in Enugu.
She also runs Hope House Trust, an NGO involved in helping give a new lease of
life to juvenile offenders.
National assignments
and numerous awards
President Goodluck Jonathan first named Bianca SSA on Diaspora
Matters in 2011 after the death of her hubby before elevating her to become Ambassador
to Ghana and Spain in 2012.
She is also Nigeria's permanent representative to the United
Nations World Tourism Organisation.
Honors have not seized going the way of Mrs Bianca Odumegwu
Ojukwu.
She has been honored with the Certificate of Merit by El Mundo
Diplomatico, Spain for her diplomatic efforts in strengthening and improving
bilateral relationship between Nigeria and Spain.
Voice Magazine, number 1 African magazine in Netherlands named
her Outstanding African Ambassador while Anambra state Government honored her
as Ambassador of Excellence in 2016.
She has also received numerous chieftaincy titles from many
communities.
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| Bianca with her children..Photo ; SDK |
Her politics
Bianca Ojukwu is a member of the Board of Trustees of All
Progressives Grand Alliance APGA, the party her late husband formed and noted
to have played a big role in the re election of Governor Willie Obiano of
Anambra state. It is on record how she joined forces with APGA hierarchy to
travel round the state to ensure APGA victory during that election
It is still unconfirmed that the mother of three children has
her eyes on the Anambra South senatorial elections come 2019. Many think she is
qualified.
By Fred Iwenjora
Beside her husband history, she was a great woman who has worked so hard to be come a better woman 👍👍
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