Abiola Bashorun

Abiola Bashorun is a Nigerian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2006.

In 2006, eighteen-year-old Bashorun was the surprise winner of the annual pageant.[1] As the reigning queen, Baroshun's platform was Sickle Cell Awareness. She was inspired after losing a friend to the disease; she spent most of her reign organising workshops and seminars to educate Nigerians on the disease. She also represented Nigeria at Miss World 2006.[2][3]

In 2008, Bashorun appeared in a commercial for Motorola. She later went on to study Law in the United Kingdom and later moved back to Nigeria after graduating.[4] As part of her Sickle Cell Awareness platform, Bashorun spoke publicly about the disease's effect on relationships and family planning, stating that having a genotype of AA meant she could safely marry a partner with genotype SS without risk to their children's health, and expressed her willingness to marry a man living with sickle cell disease.[5] She also spoke of her ambition to study law, saying she wanted to "defend the rights of the common man."[5]

References

  1. ↑ MBGN 2006
  2. ↑ Bella Naija on MBGN 2006
  3. ↑ Abiola speaks to The Sun Archived August 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ I’m living my dream Archived February 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 "I Would Gladly Marry a Man With Sickle Cell Anaemia – Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria". Sickle Cell News. Retrieved 18 July 2026.



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