Abiola Bashorun is a Nigerian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the

Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria The Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria – often abbreviated as MBGN – was a Beauty contest, pageant organised by Silverbird Group with the main purpose of sending representatives to international competitions. Originally known as Miss Universe ...

2006. In 2006, eighteen-year-old Bashorun was the surprise winner of the annual pageant. As the reigning queen, Baroshun's platform was

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Awareness. She was inspired after losing a friend to the

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; she spent most of her reign organising workshops and seminars to educate Nigerians on the disease. She also represented

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

Miss World 2006 Miss World 2006 was the 56th edition of the Miss World pageant, held at the Sala Kongresowa, a theatre at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, on 30 September 2006. It was the first time ever that the pageant was held in the ...

. In 2008, Bashorun appeared in a commercial for

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. She later went on to study Law in the United Kingdom and later moved back to Nigeria after graduating.I’m living my dream

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