The road to this year’s Miss ECOWAS Peace Pageant starts from Kumasi on June 19, with the audition of interested contestants from the country at the Miklin Hotel.
A similar audition also comes off in Accra on June 26, at the Miklin Hotel, to decide on who represents Ghana at the event slated for Sierra Leone on November 27.
These were made known on Tuesday in Accra, when the winner of last year’s pageant, Miss Joy Obasi Ngozika, from Nigeria, paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Mr Kobby O. Acheampong, at his office.
Miss Ngozika who is in the country as part of her peace ambassadorial mission, was accompanied by Miss Fatoumata Diallo, her predecessor from Senegal, and other executive members of the pageant’s organizers.
The ECOWAS Peace Pageant is a beauty pageant where contestants from the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) compete to be crowned the ECOWAS Peace Ambassador.
An initiative of 702 Productions Ltd, a Ghana-based international events management company, with endorsement from the ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, the pageant seeks to use the youth as a vehicle of preaching peace in the sub-region.
This year’s event is themed Peace Building and Development.
Mr Kobby Acheampong commended the Miss Ngozika and the organizers for having the peace of the sub-region at heart, pledging his ministries support to ensure a successful event this year.
Miss Ngozika, on her part, thanked the minister for the warm reception and said she would continue to use her crown to promote peace and development in the sun-region and Africa at large.
The Executive Director 702 Productions, also the Executive Producer of the ECOWAS Peace Pageant, Ms. Maxine Menson, said discussions were underway to host next year’s event in the country and called for support from the Ministry of Tourism.
The team later called on Mr Afriyie Ankrah, the deputy Minister of Local Government; Mr Rashid Pelpuo, the deputy Majority Leader of Parliament and Hajia Hawawu Boya Gariba, the deputy Minister of Women and Children Affairs.
Earlier, they visited the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, at his Manhyia Palace in Kumasi on Saturday.
A similar audition also comes off in Accra on June 26, at the Miklin Hotel, to decide on who represents Ghana at the event slated for Sierra Leone on November 27.
These were made known on Tuesday in Accra, when the winner of last year’s pageant, Miss Joy Obasi Ngozika, from Nigeria, paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Mr Kobby O. Acheampong, at his office.
Miss Ngozika who is in the country as part of her peace ambassadorial mission, was accompanied by Miss Fatoumata Diallo, her predecessor from Senegal, and other executive members of the pageant’s organizers.
The ECOWAS Peace Pageant is a beauty pageant where contestants from the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) compete to be crowned the ECOWAS Peace Ambassador.
An initiative of 702 Productions Ltd, a Ghana-based international events management company, with endorsement from the ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, the pageant seeks to use the youth as a vehicle of preaching peace in the sub-region.
This year’s event is themed Peace Building and Development.
Mr Kobby Acheampong commended the Miss Ngozika and the organizers for having the peace of the sub-region at heart, pledging his ministries support to ensure a successful event this year.
Miss Ngozika, on her part, thanked the minister for the warm reception and said she would continue to use her crown to promote peace and development in the sun-region and Africa at large.
The Executive Director 702 Productions, also the Executive Producer of the ECOWAS Peace Pageant, Ms. Maxine Menson, said discussions were underway to host next year’s event in the country and called for support from the Ministry of Tourism.
The team later called on Mr Afriyie Ankrah, the deputy Minister of Local Government; Mr Rashid Pelpuo, the deputy Majority Leader of Parliament and Hajia Hawawu Boya Gariba, the deputy Minister of Women and Children Affairs.
Earlier, they visited the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, at his Manhyia Palace in Kumasi on Saturday.
