Talk:Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (Pageant)

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194.80.240.66 (talk) 12:42, 24 September 2008 (UTC)If anybody have photographs of MBGN winners, past or present, please upload them onto their pages. Thank you.194.80.240.66 (talk) 12:42, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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My name is Tami, and since 2008 I have been responsible for editing the MBGN and Miss Nigeria pages. In recent weeks I have been accused of creating pages which are subsequently used to attack the subjects and add false information. These claims are ridiculous, and I can assure the administrators that as a Wiki editor, that is not my intention, as I am aware that these article are read by people all over the world, and indeed a few of the subjects have contacted me to voice their complaints, which is never intentional but always rectified.

As far as the MBGN page is concerned, I would like to point out a few facts which have been questioned by Widefox:

MBGN in Nigeria is a genuine beauty pageant, the biggest in Nigeria, and the most consistent; therefore the website cited is reliable ^[1].

In the late 80's, Nigeria's rights to Miss World were sold to Silverbird, organisers of MBGN ^[2].

It is a well-known fact that the pageants winners have been mostly Igbo women, stating with Lynda Chuba-Ikpeazu in 1986. The current titleholder, Isabella Ayuk is the first non-Igbo woman from the South-East to win the title in nine years. The reference cited clearly states that Ayuk is a Cross River-native, and most people from this area are Efik. The previous five winners of the contest were Igbo - any Nigerian can tell by looking at their surnames; for all those who are not familiar with African names, I can provide citation. Omotu Bissong, who won the contest in 2003 (as Celia Bissong) was also from Cross River. After her reign, no other Cross River-native won the title; the winners were mainly Igbo women like rapper Munachi Nwankwo. Regina Askia, who was also a non-Igbo contestant from the South-East did not actually win in 1988 - she replaced Bianca Onoh, yet another Igbo winner.

The history section may work better in prose, so that will be re-written, adding more references where necessary.

Some of the links are dead now, but they shall be revived. I should also state that most of them were reliable sources as they came from newspapers such as The Punch and The Vanguard which are reputable journals in Nigeria.

The 'Trivia' section is actually a Crossover section - other pageant pages like Miss World have similar segments.

Thank you.Cleanupbabe (talk) 12:30, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of reliable Sources

More verifiable and reliable sources will be added soon to this article. Presently, I can't find the time to do that. Once I have more time at hand in the next few days, I'll update this article. In the meanhwile, I have added a series of relieble sources in the Afd discussion here. Amsaim (talk) 19:10, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1] MBGN Website

[2] Fellow Nigerian's 10-million-dollar suit hangs on Miss World

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