Our beautiful Chidinma Adetsina was actually robbed of her real crown as the new Miss Universe đź‘‘ But interestingly, she seems to be full of gratitude for such an exciting opportunity that earned her double Queenship for both Africa and Oceania.
That actually worth celebrating.
As strange as this may sound, since this most talked about Miss Universe pagentary took place, I just couldn’t move past how Nigeria happened to the poor girl!
Yes. Being a Nigerian denied her the real Miss Universe Crown which by all standards and ratings she deserves.
What do I mean?
The organisers of the pageantry obviously put a few critical things into cognizance before selecting the Danish girl over our girl. Even though all we could call it was ‘ojoro’. But to them it was a strategic verdict.
And I think one of the considerations for picking the Danish girl, would be picking a country that has the infrastructure, political stability as well as security architecture to host the next Miss Universe which Nigeria currently cannot boast of.
And that automatically didn’t put her in the right position to take home the crown.
Nigeria of today is too unstable economically, politically as well as religion wise to host such an event. Except we are lying to one another.
Some of our religious views are just too warped and primitive to handle some global activities especially the International Pagentary of such standards.
Recall the incident that happened after Agbani Darego won Miss World 2001 and the disgusting episode that followed in 2002, when Nigeria had already been penciled to host that year’s Miss World Pageant?
Some religious sect stood against it. Obviously, their belief systems outrightly frown at women showcasing their beauty for the world to see and appreciate God’s handiworks. Ridiculous! you may say.
Such is our story in Nigeria. This archaic belief system as well as many other primitive doctrines in our society have overtime become the clog in the wheel of progress for our dear country.
The sad reality about this whole religiousity in Nigeria is the fact that those countries that sold these ideas, in the form of religion to us have strategically moved towards aligning with global views particularly about how a modern society should be run.
But here we are as a nation, struggling, killing, maiming and denying ourselves sustainable development due to religious fanaticism and bigotry.
Nonetheless, it’s crystal clear that there is a lot of work to be done mostly through reorientation programmes for the citizens, if we truly desire a nation that is safe to live in and can compete favourably amongst other comity of nations.