WENTY-YEAR good-looking , alluring and charming Miss Onyinye Ogor, a Deltan and final-year Economics and Statistics student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Benin-City, Edo State is the current Miss Oil and Gas Nigeria (MOGN), 2007 and in more or less two months time, she will step down for the next Queen.
MOGN coronet has been applauded as a high-status peace project and one of the most fascinating

Miss Onyinye Ogorbeauty parades in the Niger-Delta, the money-making strong hold of Nigeria.

Already, hundreds of girls are taking their turn at the various screening centres- Royal Marble Hotel in Benin City for those in the South/South and South/West regions to see who becomes the 2008 Queen, while the applicants from the South /East and North Central zones took their turn on June 28 at Wingate Hotel and Suit, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The success of the applicant is based on their grasp of the problems facing the Niger Delta and possible solutions to the crisis.

As a Queen, the holder of the crown is an Ambassador of Peace in the entire region and the spectacle in itself is conceived to buy back the battered image of Niger Delta through peace advocacy for the sustainable socio-economic development in the region; promotion of awareness on the HIV/STD and other diseases; and inculcation of social responsibility consciousness in the youths.

The 2008 edition promises a lot of excitement, as oil and gas companies, stakeholders and some governmental bodies have shown interest in both sponsorship/partnership of the with the organizers of the beauty parade, as a way of not only fulfilling their social and corporate responsibility, but, also contributing to the reinstallation of peace and socio-economic development of the Niger Delta.

MOGN 07, Miss Ogor, who hails from Igbodo in Delta State paid a visit to the Vanguard's South-South Regional Office in Warri, Delta State, Wednesday, and spoke among other things on her tenure, her perception of beauty. Excerpt:

What made you to enter into the miss oil & gas Nigeria (MOGN) competition?

Thank you very much. I got to understand that the MOGN is basically trying to develop the Niger Delta area, and they are actually searching for a queen who can be a symbol of peace, one that can reach out to her fellow youth and talk to them about pressing issues of our time in the Niger Delta area.

So you eventually won the maiden edition of MOGN to become the queen, what do you think were the reasons that made you to win?

Well, I would say first and foremost that there has to be brain, your brilliancy and your height counts for you to win, and secondly, your beauty, poise and elegance. Basically, I think those were the main attributes that made me to win.

You talked about beauty, poise and elegance, what is your own concept of these attributes?

Well, beauty they say is in the eyes of the beholder, but, you don't only see it from the outside, being beautiful on the inside is much more important.

For me, if I were to judge a beautiful person, I'll want to see what they have on the inside, because if you're beautiful and what comes out of you is nothing to write home about, I wouldn't appreciate that.

Then elegance is the way you carry yourself, which makes you stand out from every one and every other girl around you, this normally reflect in your style, dressing, aura and so on.

Most men, when they look at you, they are looking at the vital parts such as the face, boobs, lips and so on, so from what you must have noticed, which part of your body do you think they admire most when they look at you?

(Laughter) If you ask me, I will say it's my face.

Is it your nose that they look at when they look at your face, can you be specific?

Just my face, you know my nose, my eyes and my lips. (Long laughter)

So what do they say about your lips? Continued    Source: nigeriafilms.com - Nigeria Films