Chinenye Ochuba-Akinlade

Ochuba-Akinlade is the seventh of eight children and also a twin. She is an Igbo. She won the 2002 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant while awaiting admission into university.^[1] Despite being a favourite for the Miss Universe 2002 crown, she failed to make the top ten, but fared better at Miss World, where she was a top ten finalist, as well as the African Continental Queen of Beauty.^[2] Her reign was a scandal free one.

She had her secondary education at Regan Memorial Secondary School. After her reign left her Computer Science at University of Lagos.^[3] She studied Accounting and Finance at the University of Greenwich London.^[4]

She was the Second Best for Miss Universe Pageant in Puerto Rico and Miss World.^[5]

Formerly a student at the University of Lagos, Ochuba-Akinlade completed her degree in accounting and financing at the University of Greenwich, London in 2008, graduating with a second class upper.^[6] She returned to Nigeria, where she married businessman AdeKunle Tajudeen Akinlade, and worked for ExxonMobil. Ochuba-Akinlade now has two children.^[7] He is from Agosasa in Ipokia of Idiroko Ogun State. He is the first born of a family of nine.^[8] His Mum died in 1997 and his Dad is a retired Army Officer. He studied Political Science in University of Lagos. He has a 6year old from his previous relationship with Temilade. They met at Lagos in 2004^[9]