A hijab model, 18-year-old Shatu Garko has emerged has been crowned the 44th Miss Nigeria after besting 18 other contestants at the beauty pageant in Lagos on Friday night, December 17.

The horse-riding lover, who represented the North West region of Nigeria during the pageant, is the first hijab-wearing model to wear the Miss Nigeria crown.


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