Chinenye Ochuba-Akinlade is a Nigerian beauty pageant titleholder. Ochuba-Akinlade is the seventh of eight children and also a twin. She is an

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. Following completion of her secondary education at Regan Memorial Secondary School, she won the 2002 edition of the

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

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

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

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, Ochuba-Akinlade completed her degree in

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and

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at the

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

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company

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. Ochuba-Akinlade now has two children.Ochuba-Akinlade gets groovy
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1980s births Alumni of the University of Greenwich Igbo beauty pageant contestants Living people Miss Universe 2002 contestants Miss World 2002 delegates Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria winners Nigerian twins University of Lagos alumni Fraternal twins {{Nigeria-pageant-bio-stub