MBGN, MISS AFRICA HOLD IN CALABAR OCTOBER

David Asare

Plans have been concluded to stage the first ever Miss Africa and Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Beauty Pageants in Calabar, according to an agreement signed by Cross River State government and Silverbird Group Friday.
Miss Africa Beauty Pageant, which will be managed by Silverbird Group; and MBGN will be hosted at prestigious Calabar International Conference Centre in October and December this year respectively.
Both Pageants are the first of the four year management contract for the hosting of Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN).
At the signing ceremony held inside the CICC, Governor Senator Ben Ayade said: "Silverbird has the capacity and expertise to manage the centre as as well as organize the pageants because they are the nation's number one in the entertainment industry. It is a four-year contract subject to renewal, but I know they have all it takes to manage the edifice as well as organize the pageants."
Ayade said by staging the two epochal events in the state, it was to further consolidate on the tourism drive.
"Calabar has taken its place as the destination for tourism and entertainment", he said.
Earlier Group Vice President, Silverbird Group, Mr. Guy Murrày-Bruce said the pageants would enable the state showcase its enormous tourism potentials to the whole world with the view to attracting tourists for economic gains.
"I am not only impressed about what I have seen today but overwhelmed for Calabar and Africa for this is the best destination to be and one has to travel wide to know. It is beautiful and scenic, I must confers."
He observed that though work is still in progress on site, the facility will be ready for MBGN in October as assured by the contractors who were busy putting finishing touches on the massive convention centre .