The organisers of Most Valuable Governors’ Wife Awards, MVGWA, while addressing newsmen in Abuja that the award was in recognition of selfless services of the selected eight women to humanity

The expectation is that the opportunity will be properly utilised by women to ensure that as they collect they pay back for more women to come on board

EVEN at close range, not many people in Edo State may be able to know or can easily recognise Betsy Obaseki, wife of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State.

I started makeup artistry right from my days at the University of Port-Harcourt as a student of Biochemistry. Makeup was also the first job I did after school. I knew a long time ago that I wasn’t going to practice Biochemistry because I actually did the course to make my parents happy. While at school, I was also travelling to Jos with night bus to buy gold jewelry which I sold in school. Later on, I started collecting Mary Kay from a church member to sell.

In recent years, the entertainment sub-sector in the country has witnessed the increasing introduction of beauty pageants in various forms and shades. From Miss Nigeria, which started in 1957, to Silverbird Group’s Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, MBGN, others such as Queen Nigeria, Miss Teen Nigeria, Miss Nigeria in America, Miss Earth Nigeria, Sisi Oge, Miss Heritage Nigeria and so on, have sprung up.