The finale of the World’s first Orange Beauty and Style Pageant, known as the Face of Nigeria will be held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital.The finale of the pageant is expected to be held in September 2016. As per one of the organizers, Ayo Ayolade, the 2016 edition of the Orange Beauty festival is about celebrating the Best of Nigeria, also promoting the educational rights of the Nigerian Girl-Child at the same time.

 “Towards this end preparations for staging the Orange beauty festival has begun in earnest with all the pageant’s structures across the regions of the country fully set to kick-off the zonal levels of the world class show”., said Ayo.

The screening of the pageant will take place in six zones of the country and will start in the month of February 2016. The screening centres for the pageant are Uyo, Enugu, Asaba, Ibadan, Lagos and Abuja. Ayo talks about the addition of cooking competition segment in the pageant and says, “The addition of cooking competition as a competitive segment of the pageant not only celebrates the Africaness of the new idea, but illuminates that African line of thought that the beauty of a woman transcends beyond the physical. Beauty with responsibility especially in home making and upkeep is espoused as the virtue of African woman.”

“The contestants as mothers of the future are revered. In spite of their differences in tribes, religion, customs and manners the package offers them the platform to show their unknown beauty and talents, unite their hearts as “Ambassadors of Peace and Beauty“. Through the pageant they are expected to expand their friendship network, improve by acting together, as well as deepen their mutual exchanges,” he concludes.