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Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria – often abbreviated as MBGN – is a pageant organised by Silverbird Group with the main purpose of sending representatives to international competitions. Originally known as Miss Universe Nigeria, it was renamed Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria after news publishers ''Daily Times'' lost its license to send delegates from rival contest Miss Nigeria to Miss World and Miss Universe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MTV Base )〕 The current title-holder is Psychology student Unoaku Anyadike who represented Anambra, and her platform is Endometriosis. 〔(MBGN winner, Unoaku Anyadike to fight endometriosis )〕 ==History== Former publisher Ben Murray-Bruce ventured into show business after his magazine ''Silverbird'' flopped. He took a loan of N200,000 from his father which he used to organise a number of successful concerts which saw artists like Shalamar and Kool and the Gang perform in Nigeria, after which he promoted a new pageant known as Miss Universe Nigeria in 1983, but it only gained public attention in 1986 after it changed its name to Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria in 1986,〔 and its first winner was model Lynda Chuba.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=One crown: 34 hotties line up for MBGN )〕 MBGN winners are expected to represent Nigeria at Miss World (although Lynda Chuba, Rihole Gbinigie, Chika Chikezie, Angela Ukpoma, and Isabella Ayuk did not have this opportunity), and until 2004 at other international pageants including Miss Universe, where Chuba was the first Nigerian in twenty-three years to compete after Edna Park's on-stage hysteria in 1964, while the first MBGN winner at Miss World was English language student Omasan Buwa in 1987. As with most pageants second-place winners are expected to replace the title-holder if they are unable to complete their reign; this has only happened twice – Biology student Regina Askia replaced Bianca Onoh after the latter resigned in 1989,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nigerian Beauty Queens still rocking )〕 while Philosophy student Ann Suinner continued Agbani Darego's win after she was crowned as Miss World in 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anne Titilope now Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria )〕 Winners traditionally adopt at least one platform (also known as 'pet project') during their reign – an issue which is of relevance to Nigeria. Once chosen, the winner (and occasionally other finalists) uses their status to address the public about their platform. The most popular has been Sickle cell Awareness, but others have included Polio,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dress sexy if you must, but not indecent – MBGN (World) )〕 Child labour,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MBGN to help victims of child labour, human trafficking )〕 Education, and Widow Empowerment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The MBGN Is A Most Veritable Platform For Big Dreams )〕 In 2007, Silverbird announced that the pageant would produce four more representatives apart from the winner. The original titles were Miss MBGN Universe (to represent at Miss Universe), MBGN Tourism (Miss Tourism International), and MBGN Ecowas (Miss Ecowas). A fifth title, MBGN Model, which allowed its holder to compete in modelling contests at international level, was dropped and replaced with MBGN Ambassador, with its winner performing ceremonial duties in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=http://fabmagazineonline.com/the-mbgn-2012-meet-the-contestants/ )〕 The differences between MBGN and Miss Nigeria have been compared with Miss USA and Miss America. While MBGN delegates compete at international level, Miss Nigeria winners no longer have this privilege.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Being a Beauty Queen is a Huge Responsibility )〕 In 2010 Miss Nigeria was relaunched as a scholarship programme and its winners in recent years receive modelling contract as part of their prize. MBGN focuses mainly on physical beauty unlike Miss Nigeria which is excepted to promote inner beauty with a wholesome girl-next-door image – as a result its swimsuit competition was famously scrapped in 2010 but this feature remains popular at MBGN.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Miss Nigeria Returns after 6 years, without swim wear segment )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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