It was a historic moment on Saturday August 15, 2020 as the organisers of Miss Earth Nigeria 2020 led by star actress and beauty queen, Ibinabo Fiberesima, hosted its maiden virtual grand finale.
At the end of the event, beautiful Gwenivere Chioma Ifeanyieze was crowned as successor to the former Queen, Susan Garland.
Gwenivere, beat a pack of 106 who entered the competition with a stunning performance, to clinch the coveted crown.
At the preliminaries, Gwenivere also won silver in the resort wear and talent competitions and gold in long gown competition.
Gwenivere’s area of advocacy which no doubt endeared her to the judges was on ‘recycling waste’.
Earlier, the distinguished judges which included ex beauty Queen Regina Askia, Adaeze Yobo, Monalisa Chinda-Coker, Fred Amata, Ekemini Ekerete, Rikato, Santiago Roberts and Makioba Bob Manuel Olugbile, had first pruned the 106 entries to 30 and eventually 15.
The fifteen stunning beauties who locked horns at the Miss Earth Nigeria 2020 grand finale were: Kayla(Lagos state), Lauretta(Lagos state), Gwen(Enugu state), Stella(Lagos state), Efe(Delta state), Chidiogo(Anambra state), Feyisayo(FCT Abuja), Kelly(Lagos state), Catherine(Rivers state), Tammy(River state), Adenike(Kwara state), Triona(Akwa Ibom state), Olajumoke(Lagos state), Cynthia (Lagos state) and Mercy (Rivers state).
How they were chosen
At the 2020 contest, the contestants were asked to send in videos and to talk about their Environmental advocacy.
The entrants were then screened from 106 to 30.
With the number reduced to 30, the organisers began training them via Zoom about the present Environmental challenges, COVID-19 and the new normal.
They were also given home work which they submitted for marking.
This was followed by a COVID-19 Africa Fashion competition from where the number was pruned to Top 15. The different activities were held on different days.
For the rest of the competition, the contestants were asked to submit videos for the different categories and were judged through Zoom and Facebook live streaming.
Meet Miss Earth Nigeria 2020 Winner
Gwenivere Chioma Ifeanyieze, was born on the 4th of January, 1998 to the family of Chief Emmanuel and Dr. Mrs. Florence Ifeanyieze in Enugu State.
She is an undergraduate of Plant Science and Biotechnology at the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria and works with the National Environmental Standard Regulation and Enforcement Agency, FCT, Abuja.
She is also an A-List model.
Her interests include fashion modelling, entrepreneurship, singing and advocacy.
Gwenivre, is an ardent advocate of Supporting Life on Earth with the use of Putrescible waste, and is passionate against the use of chemical fertilizers in agriculture.
She believes strongly in the use of putrescible waste to produce organic manure for a healthier crop productivity and environment.
As the crowned representative of her country Nigeria to the Miss Earth International Beauty Pageant, she hopes to use the platform to promote her project titled “Waste to Wealth with Putrescible Waste”, where she receives putrescible waste from people and gives incentives to promote and encourage them on the relevance of the use of putrescible waste.
In turn, she produces compost and sells to farmers for better crop productivity.
She intends to use the Miss Earth Nigeria accrued partnership first with the Enugu State Ministry of Environment and gradually to other states in Nigeria to assist the state and local governments in managing their municipal solid waste in an environmentally sound and sustainable manner.
She is going to partner with RecyclePoints Nigeria to educate people and effect the proper recycling of plastics and further embark on a campaign for a waste to electricity project.
She also intends to speak out against the use of chemical fertilizers for agriculture and publicly lecture for the production of organic manure for farming and reduction of waste generated in homes.
Gwenivere enjoys singing, listening to music, hanging out with friends and being with family.
