27 Facts About Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu

Bianca Odinakachukwu Olivia Odumegwu-Ojukwu is a Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu currently serves as the Federal Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations World Tourism Organization and the incumbent Minister of State Foreign Affairs, after being sworn-in on 4 November 2024.

The sixth child of former Anambra State Governor Christian Onoh and his wife Carol, a college principal, Bianca Onoh spent most of her childhood in rural Ngwo with her siblings Lilian, Josephine, Nuzo, Gabriel, Stella, Christian and Josef.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu attended Ackworth School, Pontefract, St Andrews College, Cambridge, and Cambridge Tutorial College where she obtained her A-levels.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu soon began a combined honours degree in Politics, Economics and Law at the University of Buckingham, but transferred to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka after her father, a lawyer by profession, insisted she concentrated solely on Law and join the family business.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu established the non-government organisation Hope House Trust, centered towards rehabilitating juvenile offenders in Enugu.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is a Diplomat, Lawyer, Business woman, Beauty Pageant Titleholder and an International pageant holder.

In December 1988, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, 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.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu won the Miss Africa 1989 pageant held in Gambia before representing her country at both Miss World in Hong Kong and Miss Universe in Mexico.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu achieved greater success when she became the first African to win Miss Intercontinental that same year, and was named Miss Congeniality at Miss Charm in Russia where she was a semi-finalist.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu represented Nigeria at the Miss World in Hong Kong and Miss Universe in Mexico.

In 2011, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu was appointed Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Affairs by President Goodluck Jonathan; in 2012 she became Nigeria's Ambassador to Ghana and later Ambassador to the Kingdom Of Spain.

In 2016, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received a master's degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from Alfonso X el Sabio University in Spain.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu holds a Diploma in Human Rights and International Relations from the Berg Institute as well as a Diploma in Dynamics of Conflict and Cooperation from the University for Peace, Costa Rica.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is Nigeria's permanent representative to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu was appointed as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on Wednesday October 23,2024 by President Tinubu.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is a principal member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Grand Alliance.

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

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.

On 17 March 2022, during the inaugural ceremony of governor Chukwuma Soludo, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu delivered what has now been widely dubbed a 'valedictory slap' to a visibly inebriated Ebelechukwu Obiano, the outgoing first lady of Anambra State, who had physically attacked her at the state function.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu was in a relationship with her husband from the year 1989 and they got married on November 12,1994.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu holds many traditional titles in her native land as well as the highest chieftaincy title conferred on women in her region.

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.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu was honored with the "Ambassador of Excellence" Award by the Government of Anambra State, Nigeria at its Silver Jubilee commemoration in 2016.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is a member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, the Political Party that was founded by her late husband Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and which has maintained political power in Anambra State for over a decade.

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu 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, named after her husband, and a member of the Governing Board of Christian Chukwuma Onoh College of Education, founded in honor of her father.