Bianca Odinakachukwu Olivia Odumegwu-Ojukwu (née Onoh; born 5 August 1968)[1] is a Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder.

[6] She is also Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations World Tourism Organization ( UNWTO) and the incumbent Minister of State Foreign Affairs, after being sworn-in on 4 November 2024.

In December 1988, Bianca, who had previously emerged winner at Miss Martini, in her teens in England, contested in, and was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, but reigned through most of 1989.

On 23 October 2024 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu reshuffled his cabinet and appointed Ojukwu as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

[24] In 1989, halfway through her reign as MBGN, Bianca began a relationship with Biafra President Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a political associate of her father's, over thirty years her senior.

[26][27] The immense pressure of being under the public eye became increasingly unbearable, causing her to resign as Miss Intercontinental as her main concern was completing her education as a law student.

In 1994,[28] having finally obtained her degree, she married the former Biafra President, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in a lavish wedding ceremony held in Abuja, the federal capital territory of Nigeria.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu appealed to her critics to allow Odumegwu-Ojukwu to "rest in peace", describing him as a man of honour and integrity whose legacy should not be obscured by rancour over inheritance issues and stating that the will was drafted in 2005, registered and placed in the custody of the State Probate Registry with the legal witnesses and executors, who were present at the time it was prepared, still living.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu was honoured with the Certificate of Merit by El Mundo Diplomatico for her efforts towards providing effective platforms for constructive engagement between Nigeria and Spain, and was voted Africa's Outstanding Ambassador by Dutch magazine The Voice in 2014.

[34] She is presently the secretary of the Truth, Justice and Peace Commission set up in 2022 to investigate the root causes of violence, insecurity and separatist agitations in South-Eastern Nigeria as well as a member of the Governing Council of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University( COOU), named after her husband, and also a member of the Governing Board of Christian Chukwuma Onoh College of Education ( CCOCE), founded in honor of her father.