{"id":55604,"date":"2024-09-01T16:01:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T06:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55604"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T06:01:40","slug":"beauty-queen-wins-miss-nigeria-after-south-africa-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55604","title":{"rendered":"Beauty queen wins Miss Nigeria after South Africa row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A former Miss South Africa contestant hounded over a nationality row was crowned Miss Universe Nigeria on Saturday, capping a difficult few weeks for the beauty queen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born to a Nigerian father in South Africa, 23-year-old Chidimma Adetshina withdrew from the country&#8217;s competition &#8220;for the safety and wellbeing of my family and I&#8221; after a backlash that exposed anti-foreigner sentiment in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This journey has been a tough journey for me and I am so proud of myself and I&#8217;m really grateful for the love and the support,&#8221; Adetshina told AFP minutes after being crowned in Nigeria&#8217;s commercial capital of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is something that I&#8217;ve always wanted, and I&#8217;m really glad that I have a second shot as well at achieving it,&#8221; Adetshina said.<\/p>\n<p>Her Nigerian heritage attracted vicious xenophobic attacks and sparked controversy when she was announced as a Miss South Africa finalist in July, while the government said it was investigating a claim that her mother may have stolen the identity of a South African woman.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not being in the country in 20 years, organisers of the Nigerian contest invited her to join their final, saying it was a chance for her to &#8220;represent your father&#8217;s native land on an international stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Miss South Africa contestant hounded over a nationality row was crowned Miss Universe Nigeria on Saturday, capping a difficult few weeks for the beauty queen. Born to a Nigerian father in South Africa, 23-year-old Chidimma Adetshina withdrew from the country&#8217;s competition &#8220;for the safety and wellbeing of my family and I&#8221; after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2206],"class_list":["post-55604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-beauty-queen-wins-miss-nigeria-after-south-africa-row"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}