A Nigerian young woman who is facing trial for the suspected murder of a CEO of a media house has been crowned Miss Cell 2022, at Kirikiri correctional facility in Lagos.
Chidinma Ojukwu, a 21-year-old student of the University of Lagos, who allegedly stabbed her victim to death in Lekki, Lagos in 2021, emerged Miss Cell 2022 in a beauty pageant organized at the prison centre to mark the 2022 International Women’s Day theme: “BreakingTheBias,” reported Nigeria’s DAILY POST Newspapers.
Furthermore, photos also showed other female inmates who contested in the pageant, all dressed in dinner gowns with sashes supposedly representing their prison wards, according to Nigerian online news publication Punch news.
According to a report by Sahara Reporters, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service, has reacted to the public outrage that followed when pictures of Ojukwu, the alleged killer of Super TV CEO, Micheal Ataga, winning a beauty pageant in jail, surfaced on the internet.
In June 2021, Nigerian Police arrested Ojukwu, an undergraduate for the alleged murder of a businessman.
In an interview with Nigeria’s Vanguard Newspaper, Miss Ojukwu recounted how she killed the Super TV boss.
According to her, the 300-level Mass Communication student of UNILAG narrated that she first strangled Ataga before stabbing him to death.
Police detectives found a fake International Passport with No. B50010434, a fake Drivers’ license showing ‘Mary Johnson’ with the suspect’s photograph, an Access Bank statement of account slip.
Others are a National Identification Card bearing the suspect’s name, complimentary cards, a United Bank for Africa ATM debit card bearing the suspect’s name and a UNILAG identity card bearing the suspect’s name.
However, Lagos State Government in October charged the suspect to court for the murder of the Nigerian businessman.
Miss Ojukwu has been remanded to Kirikiri, Nigeria’s fiercest prison by the Lagos state high court since October.
A recent survey carried out by Insider Monkey, an investment website that tracks corporate insiders and hedge funds, has ranked Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco and South Africa among 15 “cheap countries” to visit with family.
The Insider Monkey’s affordable countries list features Egypt as the top cheapest country for family trips while Ethiopia is in fifth place on the survey report, with Morocco ranking in eighth position while South Africa comes in at 15th place.
Giving a breakdown of what it will cost for a family vacation in the listed countries, the report say a one week trip for two people would cost as little as $935 in the listed countries to visit.
According to the survey, the second cheapest country for family trips is India, while Serbia and Colombia are ranked third and fourth, respectively.
“Ethiopia is the fifth in the list, while Poland and Russia are the sixth,and seventh, respectively,” the report said.
“South Africa ranks 15th, behind Romania (14th), Hungary (13th), Panama (11th), Albania (10th), and Bulgaria (9th),” the report stated.
Nigeria’s Afrobeats sensation, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has landed another milestone after his hit single, “Unavailable’, surpassed 100 million streams on both YouTube and Spotify.
According to a release on Wednesday by his management team, the track which features South African artist, Musa Keys, also hit a major milestone as its music video crossed 100 million views on YouTube.
The hit track which was released on April 11, 2023, as part of Davido’s chart-topping album “Timeless”, grew to become the most streamed Afrobeats song of 2023 and received high praise, including being named by Rihanna as her favorite single of the year.
“The single, Unavailable, has also surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify to become Davido’s first single to achieve this feat,” the statement said.
“With the music video surpassing 100 million views, it becomes Davido’s fourth song to surpass the 100 million streams mark following his 2017 hit releases ‘If’, ‘Fall’, and ‘FIA’.
“Following the success of Unavailable, Davido released a remix EP that includes collaborations with Jamaican Dancehall star Sean Paul and American rapper Latto.
“Described by Rihanna as her favourite single of 2023, Davido’s Unavailable was the most streamed Afrobeats song released in 2023.
“Additionally, the single recently earned a SNEP Gold plaque after reaching 15 million streams in France, cementing its status as a global hit,” it added.