Adaeze Yobo Becomes Africa Fashion Week Ambassador

The winner of the 2008 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant and the wife of the Super Eagles captain, Adaeze Yobo, has joined the rank of world-class super celebrities to be named the Africa Fashion Week Ambassador.

The 24-year-old Adaeze achieved her childhood dream of becoming the most beautiful girl in Nigeria in 2008, at the age of 18, beating 29 other beautiful Nigerian women to get the crown. She also represented Nigeria at Miss World 2008 in South Africa, making the top twenty list in Miss World Talent, and placed second in Miss World Sports.

As a celebrity ambassador for the Africa Fashion Week London, the AFWL organisers said Mrs. Yobo will help in furthering the key objective of the fashion show that is focused on inspiring the teeming youth talent all over the world, especially in Africa, by presenting celebrity offerings and success stories as benchmarks for positive youthful aspirations.

Speaking on the appointment of Yobo, the founder of AFWL, Ronke Ademiluyi, said: “I am delighted to have Mrs. Yobo on our platform. Her beauty, achievements and strategic status makes her a miracle and a rare find. Millions of our youthful followers all over the world will be inspired by her.”

Mrs. Yobo will be joining the ranks of other celebrity ambassadors on the AFWL platform such as Ghana’s ex-beauty queen Menaye Donkor, Congo DCR’s ex-beauty queen, supermodel and UN Ambassador for Peace, Noella Coursaris Musunka, bassist and lead vocalist of the Noisettes British Band, Shinghai Shoniwa, Sky Tv Presenter, Lukwesa Burak and Ugandan-born editor of the London-based New Africa Woman Magazine, Regina Jane Jere.

In her capacity as AFWL Celebrity Ambassador, Mrs. Yobo will be working closely with some of the world’s best celebrities of African descent such as Yinka Shonibare, artist and Member of the British Empire (MBE) and director of the Tiwanis Art Gallery London, and Princess Fifi Ejindu, Nigerian-born, world-class architect, real estate entrepreneur