I am Doing Everything Within my Capacity to Project My Enuani People to the World

This Year's Edition is Dedicated to the Ndi Omu.

- Augustine Nwaeni, Miss Enuani Initiator Tells Pen Master

"Miss Enuani is one of my projects that is so dear to me and I am doing everything within my capacity to project it to the world. Miss Enuani/Enuani Achievers Award is a very unique project which I conceived to to bring the Enuani to the world."

These were the words of Augustine Onochie Nwaenie, the Ogwashi-Uku-born initiator of Miss Enuani pageant. He told PEN MASTER on Friday that although he is into ICT and also an Entertainment Entrepreneur and a graduate of Mass Communication, he is inspired to drive the Enuani people of Anioma to becoming a household name.

"Enuani, I would say came as a divine inspiration as I wouldn't categorically say that I ever contemplated floating a unique pageant like it unlike the conventional pageants and awards that we have."

"The year I floated it, a lot of people had so much misconceptions about Enuani including advanced men in our society but I took the opportunity to school them on the little I know about our people."

According to him, Miss Enuani started in 2019 and has held twice with the COVID-19 pandemic suspending the 2020 edition but we are set for this year's edition.

Asked whether he has been receiving help from the Enuani people he is projecting especially Ogwashi-Uku, his hometown, he said:

"In all sincerity, the only help we received since the inception of this project is the one from Prince Ned Nwoko during our first edition in 2019 and from the then Delta State Commissioner for Culture, Hon Chinye Emmanuel Bazim. The present Commissioner, Engr. Lawrence Ejiofor didn't even respond to our request. He didn't give me audience when I went to see him one on one even though he is from Ubulu-Uku, my local government. No Ogwashi-Uku person has given us any support."

"I am making same efforts this year, hoping that I succeed. We are hopeful and pushing until we become a brand name internationally."

Pen Master learnt from Mr. Nwaeni that the 2019 edition was sponsored single-handed by Prince Ned Nwoko, the Idumuje Ugboko Prince.

This year's Miss Enuani is dedicated to the Omu institution of Anioma according to the organizers of the event.

"Anyone who has followed you (Pen Master) over the years will know that you are an advocate in projecting our mothers, Ndi Omu and that you even dedicated a book to them. We want to follow the step. This is why this year's edition is designed to help participants appreciate the values of our age-long tradition of having Omu in place. We respect and value them," he said.

The first edition of the pageant was won by Queen Rita Chukwueloke from Ogwashi-Uku while the reigning Queen is Miss Chibuzor Judith from Ubulu-Uku. Augustine Onochie Nwaenie called on Anioma sons and daughters to support the Miss Enuani pageant through sponsorship to groom and empower the girls through the outfit.

"This is something other people do for their societies."

This year's edition as organized by Ornimedia Network comes up on October 2nd, 2022.

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