Chinenye Akinlade is a former beauty queen.

Akinlade is the seventh of eight children and also a twin. Following completion of her secondary education at Regan Memorial Secondary School, she won the 2002 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria

Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria

The Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant originally began as Miss Universe Nigeria in 1983, and was created by Silverbird Group. It was later re-named Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria in 1986. Winners represent Nigeria in Miss World and, until recently, Miss Universe – currently, only the...

 pageant while awaiting admission into university. Despite being a favourite for the Miss Universe 2002

Miss Universe 2002

Miss Universe 2002, the 51st edition of the Miss Universe pageant, was held in Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 29, 2002. There were 75 delegates from around the world who competed for the title Miss Universe 2002. Oxana Fedorova of Russia was crowned Miss Universe 2002 by...

 crown, she failed to make the top ten, but fared better at Miss World

Miss World

The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...

, where she was a top ten finalist, as well as the African Continental Queen of Beauty.

Formerly a student at the University of Lagos

University of Lagos

The University of Lagos - popularly known as Unilag - is a federal government university with a main campus located at Akoka, Yaba and a college of medicine located at Idi-Araba, all in Lagos, Lagos State, southern Nigeria...

, Akinlade completed her degree in Accounting and Financing at the University of Greenwich

University of Greenwich

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, London

London

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 in 2008, graduating with a second class upper. She returned to Nigeria, where she married businessman Kunle Akinlade, and works for oil

Petroleum

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 company Exxon Mobil. In 2009, Akinlade gave birth to a daughter.