In her ongoing 2021 Student Week, the Nigerian Institute of Journalism crown winners of the pageantry contest kings and queens of the year.
Ekpo Victoria (HND1) and Nura Yussuf (ND 1) emerged the Queen, Miss NIJ and King, Mr NIJ respectively. Other winners were Mr Amity, Adesanya Emmanuel (HND 1), Miss Amity Beatrice Aluko(ND1), Mr Photogenic Demilade Alabi (ND1), Miss Photogenic Oluwatoyin Saporu(ND1)
The pageantry contest to choose the Mr NIJ, Miss NIJ, Mr Amity, Miss Amity, Mr Photogenic and Miss Photogenic is one out of the week-long event in the annual Student Week Program of the school which did not hold last year due to the COVID-19 Lockdown that disrupted the academic session.
Newbie HND 1 Student Emerge as Miss NIJ
In a short interview with Ekpo Victoria, Miss NIJ 2021, she expressed her delight in the win saying she was an ND graduate from Gateway Polytechnic, Saapade who had never run for any competition, not even pageantry.
"I was doubting it real big, I felt I wasn’t good enough physically or intelligent to go through the pageantry but the people around lifted my spirits. I got to remember what God said about me. God said he knew me before I was born, he said I am beautiful and wonderfully made, he reminded me that I shall be the head and not the tail. And boom, God grant me a favour 😊" Victoria said.
When asked about how she felt, she said: "What I felt is unexplainable. My mind and body had a mixed feeling. My mind was like did they just pronounce you the winner?
And my body was given this oh yeah I told ya, God got you and you just won, then my eyes brought out the hot tears it had ever before I took the bold step to get the form (for the pageantry). So yeah. I was overwhelmed!"
National Diploma 1 Produced Mr NIJ and Three Others
National Diploma 1 class produced the highest number of winners with four contestants, Mr NIJ, Miss Amity, Mr Photogenic and Miss Photogenic leaving just two to HND 1.
Mr NIJ, Nura Yusuf said he was encouraged to put in for the contest by a colleague and he agrees to it, seeing it as a means to also express himself as a student of the institute.
Unofficial Mr NIJ Emerges Mr Amity
A quite interesting twist of the event is the story of Adesanya Emmanuel who had been nicknamed Mr NIJ by fellow students from the first semester eventually emerge as Mr Amity.
Emmanuel was nicknamed Mr NIJ by his close friends in the first semester due to his good looks and vibrant sense of dress, from there it grew to popular acceptance by his classmates, other students and even some lecturers.
Although he didn't eventually emerge the already proclaimed Mr NIJ, he didn't lose too much by still grabbing Mr Amity.
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