Miss Earth Nigeria

The winner is expected to work in collaboration with environmentalist and state parastatals on how to make water safe, check erosion, pollution among others.

The special awards received and their final placements in the aforementioned global beauty competition are also displayed.

Fiberesima later claimed that she had received threatening phone calls from Okandu's family who argued that her substitution was unfair.

The newly crowned queen was labelled "rude" by the organisers, and was forced to resign after just two weeks, allowing second-place winner Biochemistry student Modesta Alozie to compete at Miss Earth instead, and reign as Miss Earth Nigeria for the remaining eleven months.

[19] Munachi Uzoma, who won the pageant in 2011, sued the organisers for breach of contract following their failure to give her the N1,000,000 cash prize and brand new car, and disclosed that some of her predecessors also suffered similar treatment.