Omasan Buwa

Omasan Buwa
Omasan Buwa
Beauty pageant titleholder
Born Omasan Tokurbo Buwa
Title(s) Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 1987
Major
competition(s)
Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 1987, Miss Nigeria 1987

Omasan Tokurbo Buwa is a Nigerian lawyer and magazine columnist, currently working as a government official in Delta State.[1]

Buwa was born in England, but moved to her native Nigeria with her parents at the age of seven.[2] In 1987, she rose to national fame in Nigeria when she represented Warri in the second Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant. As the contest had taken place late in the year, she ruled for most of 1988, and quickly gained a reputation as MBGN's most unconventional winner due to her controversial manner, and was described as a tomboy by the Nigerian press. [3] Prior to winning MBGN, she had contested in Miss Nigeria 1987, where she placed second, and was on the books of Pandora model agency, working for designers Dakova and Labanella.[4] After representing Nigeria in Miss Universe, Miss Intercontinental, and Miss World in 1988, she returned to the University of Maiduguri, where she was studying English, but was suspended by the institution's predominantly Muslim authorities who were enraged at her decision to compete in a pageant. [5]

Apart from starring in the movie Scattered Pictures, she also featured in soap operas Memories and Ripples, and presented a segment on weekend breakfast show Morning Ride. A tabloid favourite, she also owned a restaurant–jazz bar in Lagos before she married and left Nigeria, and in 2002, she graduated with a Law degree from North London University.[6]

While in London, Buwa worked as a presenter with BEN Television, before residing in Ohio where she worked as an attorney and part-time model. She was also a columnist with The Diasporan Star magazine,[7] and currently writes the column "Generation Max" for Whispaz Magazine.[8] In 2009, Buwa announced she was returning to Nigeria to work on her new project, Youth Empowerment and Development in Delta, an organisation for the "monitoring, mentoring and motivation" of the youth in her native Delta.[9]

Now divorced, Buwa is a single mother of two boys and a girl,[10] and a politician – in 2009, she was appointed as executive assistant to the governor of Delta, specialising in disability. Her initiated program RISE focuses on rehabilitative and social interaction of physically challenged persons.[11][12]

References

Preceded by
Lynda Chuba-Ikpeazu
MBGN
1987
Succeeded by
Bianca Onoh

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