Third child of a family of five children and born to a diplomat father, growing up for Glory Chukwu, current Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria (MBGN) 2009 was one filled with fun and a lot of travelling. And this also meant she was never steady in one country for more than four years.Glory Chukwu who flew the nation’s flag at the last December held, Miss world beauty pageant in South Africa, frowned at the declining quality of the contestants saying, “At the Miss World beauty pageant, breast, buttock and facial enhancements seem to have placed natural beauty permanently in the back seat”.
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The industry is left reeling after the 40-year-old’s suicide coming just days after the death of his beloved mother, Joyce and 3 years since his close friend, style guru Isabella Blow killed herself.

Talk about Niger Delta people, the things that come to mind are oil, militancy and youths restiveness occasioned by many years of exploitation of the oil rich region. But that does not take away the fact that apart from oil the region can still boast of producing some of the finest brains in the different areas of human endeavor.

Following the controversies that trailed the non emergence of a winner from the nine short listed poets for the 2009 NLNG prize for Literature which somehow strained the relationship between the writers and the sponsors of the Africa’s richest poetry prize, Liquefied Natural Gas of Nigeria (NLNG), the company last week at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs(NIIA) Victoria Island organized what it tagged a ‘Dialogue with Writers’ to look for the way forward.

Following his recent appointment as the Acting Director of the National Troupe of Nigeria, Martin Adaji, last week in Lagos at a Press parley with journalists outlined programs of action to help promote and propel the activities of the Parastatal forward.