A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday stopped the Africa Beauty Queen International Pageant to be judged by RMD, Betty Irabor, Eucharia Anunobi from staging the Lagos Beauty Pageant scheduled for March 30.  ‎The event which was unveiled on November 18th 2017 was expected to feature Reekado Banks and other Top musical artists before the hammer from the court today. 

This followed an order of interlocutory injunction granted by the court, restraining the organizers of the event to be staged at Oriental Hotel, Lagos.

‎ Justice Hadiza Rabiu-Shagari, issued the orders following an interlocutory application filed by Mr Daniel Opuene, founder of Beauty of Africa International Pageant, seeking the order of restraint. 

Joined as first to third defendants in the suit are Roses and Rubbies International Ltd, Precious Ogarekpe, and Lagos Oriental Hotel Ltd. Opuene had filed the suit through his lawyers, seeking among others an order restraining the defendants, their agents or privies, from going ahead with the event. 

He wants an order of the court halting the staging of any pageant on March 30, 2018, under the name of “Africa Beauty Queens International Pageant” or any other similar name, likely to suggest that the first and second defendant’s business is similar to the plaintiff’s. Opuene also wants the organisers barred from reproducing, publishing or distributing the pictures belonging to the plaintiff, in the said defendant’s beauty pegeantry activities or any other business pending the final determination of the substantive suit. 

At the last adjournment on March 22, the court had ordered the plaintiff to put the defendants on notice, while the court adjourned the suit for hearing of the motion on notice. When the case was called on Wednesday, the plaintif’s counsel, Mr Justin Ige, informed the court that the defendants had yet to respond to his application in spite of being served with the processes. 

He added that he had not received any processes from the defence. Moving his application, Ige told the court that the defendants are scheduled to hold the Africa Beauty Queen International Pageant which name is similar to the plaintiff’s Beauty of Africa International Pageant on March 30 at the Lagos Oriental Hotel. He argued that the plaintiff is also the registered owner of the business name — Africa Beauty Queen International Pageant — and urged the court to grant the application of the plaintiff and issue the restraining order.

 In a short ruling, Justice Shagari granted the application as requested and ordered the parties to maintain “status quo” pending the determination of the suit. By status quo maintenance, parties are to stop or desist from taking any action or step in relation to the subject of the pending suit. The judge adjourned the case until April 17 for the hearing of the substantive suit. 

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Beauty pageant is like a full blown business in Naija
If only Education will be recognized this much, the people who are deserving will be rewarded, still thats btw, but what is wrong with the judges??

Please see my signature

The hustle is deal. Bad market for the judges and the artists.

I don't care about the post sha...I just wan comment and buy waka...

At the end of the day, there's no kingdom. Foolishness.

This is how my continent differed from developed nation's; more contest than inventions and discoveries.

you say.......

ok

Naija and copy copy. Dem no go even copy well.. Copy ur name join for inside class test sef..
Na frm sch e don master dem

Court now rulling in nudity case. All is well

Yuuuu

Someone wants to reap where they have not sown.

Their headache

OP, your construction of sentences is so poor, sorry to say - no hard feelings. You need to go back to school and learn how to convey your message to your readers without struggling to arrive on time & without many unnecessary words.

I struggled to make sense of your intro & the intent of your post.

Just my observation, no hard feelings.

Interessante. What about those that applied and paid to be part of it? well, that is their business.

Some pple are wicket sha, waited patiently till the deal day is less than 24 hrs...

I hate names like...Opuene mehn

How do I even pronounce that ?

Beauty pageant, Bbnaija,Bbafrica, Nigerian idol, ultimate search,etc name it. Adding nothing positive to the society except prostitution.

What's ma own

Didn't read, too long.

Modern way of exploiting and prostituting young and desperate girls

omooba969:
OP, your construction of sentences is so poor, sorry to say - no hard feelings. You need to go back to school and learn how to convey your message to your readers without struggling to arrive on time & without many unnecessary words.

I struggled to make sense of your intro & the intent of your post.

Just my observation, no hard feelings.

His Lead is not that bad nah.

There are even too many beauty pageants in Nigeria sef, they should all be scrapped

technuel:

His Lead is not that bad nah.

Initially I wondered if it's the judges that were being stopped or the contest.

pastor eucharia a judge?

mclorenzo:
Didn't read, too long.

Effect of the problem I highlighted in the write up. Op failed to capture your attention/interest, he failed to lead you on.

The opening lines have defects.

A son argued with his father insisting that 1+1 is equal to 11.
D father looked at him and said "Go and buy 2 boiled eggs", the son went and returned with the 2 eggs.
The father said, give one to me and another one to your brother. And the son asks: what about me? The father responds: Eat the remaining nine eggs that are left.....nonsense