NAHID IS MISS POLY (SHOWBIZ, JUNE 11, PAGE 9)

By Vincent Amenuveve

NAHID Dimmua, a first-year student of the Accountancy Department of the Tamale Polytechnic was last weekend crowned Miss T-Poly 2009 at the Center for National Culture (CNC), Tamale.
Rafatu Mohammed of the Department of Secretaryship and Management Studies came second and Dora Bigor from the Department of Accountancy took the third position.
For grabbing the crown, Nahid rode away a new “Mapouka” motorbike. Rafatu received a 20-inch colour television set and a digital video compact disc player while Dora took home a table-top refrigerator.
The three winners were among eight contestants who competed for the crown. They went through eight stages but the most interesting segment was the talent hunt. Here, the beauty queens sang, recited poems and danced.
That was not all. Patrons were also entertained to a variety of performances such as rap, traditional, hiplife, highlife and hip-hop music as well as choreographed dance pieces by some of the students.
Beaming with smiles after she was crowned, Nahid told Graphic Showbiz that she felt “great and honoured but humbled by my achievement”. She said all her contenders equally had the potential to be crowned stressing that “It is just that I am the lucky one”.
Nahid pledged to help promote unity among her colleagues and the entire people of the north during her reign.
Some patrons of the pageant expressed satisfaction with the organisation of the event but wondered why the organisers demanded additional GHc1 after they had earlier paid GHC5 for the show which failed to come off last two weeks.
The beauty pageant encountered some technical challenges on May 23, the date originally scheduled for it to happen. The Entertainment Committee was therefore compelled to re-schedule the programme. Patrons who had come to watch the pageant returned home disappointed by the turn of events on that day.
The Entertainment Secretary of the Students' Representative Council (SRC), Mr. Thomas Ndenab, apologised to the entire students' body for the inconvenience caused them and hoped future events would not encounter such challenges.
The pageant was organised by the Polytechnic's Entertainment Committee and sponsored by Spendlove Boutique, Motor King, Vodafone, Megzet Beauty Clinic, Charles Fashion, Bigiza Court Hotel and Big Bite Catering Services.