NWADA IGBO PAGEANT 2015!!!

NWADA IGBO PAGEANT SEASON 5

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism Enugu State with the collaboration of Accolade Media Company Limited has unveiled the 2015 edition of the Prestigious Nwada Igbo Pageant. The Nwada Igbo pageant is the brand product of Enugu State Government, designed as a meeting point for all Igbo young maidens drawn from the Five South Eastern State and extending to Igbo areas of Delta and River States, to showcase the boundless potentials of Igbo cultural heritages of beauty, industry, diligence, service and motherhood.

The Pageant is reputed to be the most prestigious and headline pageant in South East, having laid out an unprecedented reward system. Every year, the pageant which started in 2011 gives out two exotic brand new cars to the Winner and first runners up with millions of Naira in cash prizes. In 2012 it added scholarship in its reward system leading to the 2012 winner Nwada Chinenye Ugada studying Oil and Gas Engineering in Conventry University United Kingdom.

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are Pearl Chinenye Enebeli 2011; Chinenye Marius Ugada 2012; Ijeoma Mbonu 2013 and Ndidiamaka Ibe 2014. Together with their Runners ups, the winners have in multiple ways impacted their societies through multi-level pet programmes and development Agenda.

According to the Commissioner for Culture & Tourism, Barr Smart Chika Ogbe, “Nwada Igbo Pageant is a pageant of class, honour integrity and dignity, where transparency is watch word. Contestants over the years attest to this and the pageant has attracted lots of goodwill from the wider public. There is no other youth empowerment platform for young maidens that can boast of being more formidable than Nwada Igbo Pageant”

As ENUGU FIESTA enters its 5th phase having debuted in year 2011, Nwada Igbo Pageant which is one unit in the numerous events, is designed as a one day of hilarious and breathtaking display of the rich cultural potentials of the people of Igbo Land, combining the means of costume, dialect, individual talents, music as well as knowledge of the custom of the people to touch the poignant issues in our shared values and norms.

Coming with it multilevel socio-economic objectives, the Pageant is certainly, like the ones before it a place for brand fostering, brand cooperation, product launch/ activation and furthering product mileages. It must be stated that the pageant has grown tremendously, with capacity of pooling thousands of Enugu citizens, South East and International fun seekers to an arena of festivity and mutual cooperation.
Pageant ENDORSEMENTS:

The Pageant has already created mass followership for itself with the endorsements of this year’s edition by the Executive Governor Enugu State, His Excellency Rt. Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the political class, business community, Leaders of the Clergy, Traditional leaders, Community Associations, Tourism Boards of South Eastern States as well as the National Tourism Development Commission.
CORE OBJECTIVES OF THE PAGEANT
Reinforcement of the Socio-cultural unity and bond that define the people of Igbo Nation
Promote and empower young maidens in the areas of entrepreneurship, tourism and business development.
Expand the frontiers of tourism in South East and create multilevel market opportunities for big brand players
Create quasi job opportunities for our teeming youth citizenry
And prepare our young maidens for the challenges of economic leadership
Expose them to the world of entertainment in international pageantry and fashion runway.

Speaking during the unveiling, the Anchor Person of the Pageant since 2011, Onyekachi C Ugwu (Mr Kachi), implored the organized private sector and good spirited individuals to support creativity and the effort of Enugu State Government in the area of capacity building for our teeming population of young maidens across Igbo Land.
In his words “We are no less aware of the various dimensions of hosting a pageant of this magnitude especially as it concerns funding. In this light, we call on the organized private sector and public spirited individuals to support this genuine effort of Enugu State Government to develop the latent potentials of our teeming population of young maidens by way of partnership and sponsorship. It is our belief that at no time in our history as a people is the need to refocus our youths to the needs for self development more urgent than now. With your support as ever, we will continue to expand this platform to higher heights”
To this extent therefore, the organized private sector and public spirited individuals are invited to key into this huge marketing platform by means of corporate sponsorship.
In a closing remarks, the Consultant Enugu Fiesta and CEO Accolade Media Limited Ambassador Ginika Tor called on the young maidens from Igbo Land to “seize the opportunity offered by this credible platform to aspire to realize their authentic personalities and contribute immensely to building a society all will be proud of”. She added that “forms are available in all states in south east as well as wherever Igbo Live in Nigeria at a cost of Five Thousand Naira only payable into the Enugu Fiesta Account in First Bank Nig Limited all over the Country. The account number is 2021445897.
Five crowns will be won in this year’s edition including several awards and consolation prizes.
Audition will begin in the 3rd week of November 2015. Those who qualify for the grand finale will be camped for seven days at the Prestigious Nike Lake Resort Hotel Enugu while the competition will hold in 2nd week of December, 2015.