Talk:Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (Pageant)

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)

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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.


 * In the late 80's, Nigeria's rights to Miss World were sold to Silverbird, organisers of MBGN.


 * 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)

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)