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The glamourous evening that was highly supported by EATV crew as one of the main sponsors had a very unique look this year when Diana Festo emerged as new Miss Tanga winner over the weekend.
The stage and the whole event set up that took more than a week to put in place was one that the residents had never experienced.
The event kicked off at 7.00pm on Saturday evening and it was evident that the residents were well prepared for the event. Ladies were glamorously dressed and the men were not left behind thus having very unique red carpet moments never seen before in the area.
The red carpet was graced by the NIRVANA show host of EATV and to her surprise Lotus was quick to comment that she was amazed by how fashionable Tanga was.
For those who had travelled from Dar to experience this year’s Miss Tanga, it was to our surprise how classy and fashionable this town can be.
As well, the way Khadija Kipa the taarab songbird was able to take on the stage and have the crowd sheer and scream out of their wits. Kopa is the reigning queen of Taaarab in the East Africa region and in Tanga it seems they were more than aware of that as they sang word to word during all her performances.
This year’s edition of Miss Tanga contestants were Irene Rutashobya, Zuhura Masoud, Diana Festo, Fatma Iddy, Faith Joel, Elvira Arbogast, Abigael Mathias, Yusta Philip, Nasra Ramadhan, Upendo Lyimo, Degy Wilfred, Pendo Ayoub, Janeth Maimu, Noon Juma and Vannessa Charles who were all given first class treatment at Tanga Beach resort for two weeks in a very exhaustive camp with lots of trainings and at the end of the show each left with 50,000/- each.
Those that reached top five and will now move on to the zonal Level are Faith Joel, Noon Juma, Vannessa Charles, Diana Festo and Degy Wilfred
The first runner up was Noon Juma who was awarded 500,000/- the second runner up was Vannessa Charles who left with.250,000/- leaving Festo as the winner of Miss Tanga 2014 and left with a brand new Toyota Vitz from Nice and Lovely. The prayerful Festo is a graduate student from Institute of Social Work Pursued a diploma of Social Work.
While handing over the car keys to the winner, the DC of Pangani Mama Mtasiwa as platform as a way or earning income in the modelling world. She said the modelling world is lucrative and if well utilized could curb some of the unemployment that is there in the country. The DC attended on behalf of the Regional Commissioner who was the expected guest of honor on the day.
Speaking on behalf of L’Oreal East Africa the the sponsors’ country sales manager Brian Kelly said, “It is the first time we have involved our products in this platform. We are happy we are not disappointed and we thank the organizers for this opportunity. We will definitely see what we can do in other regions and with Miss Tanzania as a whole”.
Miss Tanga this year was organized by MAC D promotions with PR and Event management support of R&R Associates whose client Nice and lovely was the official sponsor. Other sponsors were, Redd’s, EATV and EAR, Tanga Beach Resort, Breeze FM, Mwambao FM and Rweyunga Blog.