NMA storms Owerri for
beauty queens today
By TOSIN AJIRIRE
Saturday, May
3, 2008
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The organizers of the Nigerian Music Awards will today in
Owerri, the Imo State capital continue their search for the
charming queens that will wow the guests at the nation’s
biggest entertainment event, which holds in the state on Saturday,
May 24, 2008.
Indeed, the premises of Imo Concorde Hotel, Owerri will this
morning be practically overtaken by hundreds of beautiful
girls who want to be part of the contest. Each of them will
be at the prestigious hotel with a burning desire to be one
of the 37 NMA queens that will mingle with the high and mighty
at the event.
The NMA Hostess Search to choose the 37 beauties, each representing
one state of the federation and Abuja, kicked off in grand
style in Lagos on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at Water Parks,
Ikeja, Lagos. The Northern zonal contest of the Search took
place last Saturday at the poolside of Chelsea Hotels &
Suites, Abuja.
The panel short listing the girls expects a hectic time sorting
out which of the girls will qualify to be specially dressed
in national colours and mingle with the stars at the Nigerian
Music Awards. Every girl wishing to be selected will be asked
to walk the red carpet and will be accessed for looks, walk,
carriage, charisma, spoken English, intelligence and knowledge
of Nigeria and the state she represents.
The panel will be made up of Ms Cheta Teena Iroegbu, the famed
University of Ibadan trained Theatre Arts practitioner: Mr.
Lopez Nwadibia, a showbiz reporter with The SUN Newspapers
and Mr. Uzoma Ogideh, a young showbiz practitioner and modeling
agent. Also on the panel will be Miss Uche Onukwo, a senior
executive of TOPS LTD, managers of the Nigerian Music Awards.
It has become part of the tradition of the nation’s
biggest show, the Nigerian Music Awards that every state of
Nigeria and the FCT contributes a ravishingly beautiful queen
that plays the role of hostess at the NMA Grand Gala. The
search for these hostesses is
usually a tedious affair because apart from being beautiful,
each hostess must exhibit excellent manners, good carriage
and be a good ambassador of the state that she represents.
Asked what the objectives of The NMA Hostess Search are, Ms
Teena Iroegbu, who co-ordinates the search around the country
said, “The NMA Hostess Search is aimed at promoting
national integration and the best values of Nigerian womanhood
using the nation’s most famous entertainment platform,
the Nigerian Music Awards. In these days of falling educational
and moral standards, we want to showcase the fact that Nigeria
still has girls with exquisite beauty, sound intellect and
high moral standards.
That is why at the NMA Hostess Search, we are careful not
to do anything that may be considered to debase womanhood.
We do not do swim suit contests or in any way over expose
the
girls. Our emphasis is beauty and brains. Another important
fact is that the NMA is a big national event in which every
part of the country ought to participate. The 37 hostesses
represent Nigeria’s unity in diversity.
“Traditionally, at the Nigerian Music Awards, Nigeria’s
best from all walks of life are on show. It is an honour for
the girls to have the opportunity to meet and mingle with
Nigeria’s best and be inspired. Last year, some of the
NMA Hostesses were received in audience at State House, Abuja
when the President of the Federal Republic honoured the organizers
of the Nigerian Music Awards”
Ms. Iroegbum however, concluded thus: “I do not believe
that there is any Nigerian who would not have been proud at
the Grand Return of the Nigerian Music Awards in Abuja in
2007 when the 37 queens, each dressed in national green with
a dash of white, made their majestic entry into the Africa
Hall of the International Conference Centre. It was a moment
to behold.”
Who are the girls with beauty and brains who will capture
the imagination of all and take care of the hundreds of stars
when the Nigerian Music Awards Grand Gala holds in Imo State?
The question will be close to being answered this weekend.
Ms. Teena Iroegbu who co-ordinates the search has advised
all girls wishing to be part of the historic NMA Imo 2008
to visit the nmaimo2008.com website to fill their forms online
so as to be eligible for the Abuja and Owerri contest. Those
unable to complete the forms on line may show up at the venue
with their full-length photographs.
The celebrated NMA Soul Flights with stars from every walk
of life and on board live entertainment will land at Sam Mbakwe
Airport Owerri on Friday, May 23, 2008 as the various activities
of the NMA IMO 2008 kick off in style.
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