Commission Launches Beauty Pageant To Promote Safe, Regular Migration

The national authorities has unveiled a caller quality pageant initiative, tagged Miss Migration Pageantry, designed to beforehand harmless and regular migration portion curbing the dangers of irregular journeys abroad.

The project, launched connected Monday successful Abuja done a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) betwixt the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) and the Miss Luxury Foundation, volition service arsenic a level for advocacy, awareness, and empowerment, particularly for young women.

Speaking astatine the ceremony, the Federal Commissioner of NCFRMI said the concern was not astir glamour, but astir giving migration a quality look and turning it into a transformational instrumentality for nationalist development.

“This is not conscionable astir a quality contention but a level to task migration arsenic a affirmative task requiring the enactment of each stakeholder,” the commissioner said. “We expect Miss Migration to go a beardown dependable against irregular migration, educating our young radical connected its dangers portion showcasing the opportunities inherent successful harmless and regular migration pathways.”

According to him, the initiative, themed “Empower Her Voice: Breaking Chains, and Building the Future,” volition equip participants to service arsenic ambassadors of anticipation successful their communities. He added that the task would animate innovation successful migration advocacy, alteration perceptions, and mobilise resources for the rehabilitation and reintegration of returnees, with provisions for psychosocial support, skills training, and starter packs.

He stressed that the concern would complement authorities efforts successful promoting safe, orderly, and dignified migration successful enactment with some nationalist and planetary commitments.

For her part, Dr. Edidiong Udoidiong, laminitis and enforcement manager of the Miss Luxury Foundation, described the pageant arsenic “a defining moment” successful Nigeria’s migration story.

“Migration is not conscionable a statistic — it is simply a quality story. It is the young pistillate fleeing traffickers, the lad crossing borders successful hunt of hope, and the household displaced by conflict. These are the stories we privation to bring to the centre stage, not arsenic tales of despair, but arsenic blueprints for enactment and empowerment,” she said.

Dr. Udoidiong emphasized that the Miss Migration Crown would mandate young women to enactment arsenic ambassadors of harmless migration and advocates for displaced persons. She noted that the instauration would usage its grassroots networks, media platforms, and partnerships to thrust advocacy, supply empowerment training, enactment argumentation implementation, and link Nigeria’s migration docket with planetary stakeholders.

“This is not a ceremonial alliance, but a moving pact,” she said. “Through our auditions, media campaigns, and payment concerts, we volition money rehabilitation and empowerment projects for displaced women and returnees. With NCFRMI, we tin crook the tide against trafficking, unsafe migration, and the vulnerabilities that substance them.”

She urged the media to assistance archer migration stories that animate work alternatively than pity and called connected Nigerians to presumption the inaugural arsenic a corporate mission.

The Miss Migration Pageantry volition debut arsenic a broadside lawsuit astatine the 2nd thematic gathering of the Rabat Process, scheduled to clasp successful Lagos connected November 4, 2025.