Miss Adorable 2019, The Winning Strategy

Miss Adorable 2019, The Winning Strategy

This piece is premised on the Biblical allusion, "give to Caesar what is Caesar's... ". I want to use this platform to commend our Local Nugs executives and the organiser's of this year's NUGS week celebration for the yoman's job they are doing. The competitive cooking competition among the nine contestants  was the genesis of the Nugs week's celebration. It was indeed a memorable one followed by the talents show. Last night programme seemed thrilled among them. The enthusiastic endorsement that culminated the Miss Adorable last night still remains unfathomable.

Miss adorable is a beauty pageant initiated by National Union Ghana Students (NUGS) leadership to creating a level playing field for ladies in our institution to showcase their rich cultural and tradition values,  beauty and above all display their unique talents and skills in the full glare of the general public.

This has been a foresighted initiative by leadership that creates the an immeasurable opportunity for ladies on campus to trade their talents and skills with the entire student body.

I can say without any gainsay that Miss Adorable has been the most patronised programme on campus. It is usually characterised by lots of fun, excitement and all the seriousness it deserves. With my impartial participation in this all important entertaining programme within my four years stay on campus, I have never witnessed the usual lazily involvement of students in Miss Adorable like it happens to other students' activities. The New Auditorium is always full to capacity to the extent that the walkways are not usually left out.

What probably could be the secret behind the massive endorsement of Miss Adorable by students?  Could it be the competitive nature of it or the display of varied cultural and traditional values? Could it also be attributed to the calibre of guests invited to grace the programme? Any of these guesses could be right depending on the perspective of individual student.

Last night's Miss Adorable was not different from what I witnessed previously regard to the euphoria that usually characterised it. Last night's Miss Adorable was highly patronised by students with the female students dominating. Nine instead of ten ladies represented their respective regions. Indeed it was a colourful one that appealed to the emotions and feelings of students as they glued to their seats with their eyes fixed on the stage.

Contestants from the ten regions of Ghana with the exception of the Northern Region, journeyed the audience through their cultural and traditional values as well as trading their talents and skills on stage.

What appears to be a stage fright rendered most of the contestants unproductive though they were well equipped with the needed messages they wanted to give to the audience. I have taken keen interest in this seeming destructive agent of fear that continuously embarrassing Miss Adorable contestants every year. Most students fall victim of this confident-sucking agent anytime they appear before a larger crowd to present a message.

Sincerely speaking, last night beauty pageant nearly lost its significance as some of the contestants messed up as they appear on stage. One of the contestants had to give up as she was unable to overcome stage fright emanating from her as she mounted the stage.

The few contestants who seemed confident though, performed poorly and that left some of the audience dozed off intermittently. It took one of the judges, doubled as a highlife musician, Madam Akosua Agyapong, to recharge the Auditorium with her swag energetic robot dance though that was not part of the programme line up. To me, that was the peak or climax of the whole programme.

Lack of confidence in most of the contestants was an advantage to the few contestants who were a bit bolder and confident to rise to the top.

Having witnessed the above, I want to use this platform to advice the general student body to seriously work towards improving their confidence level for that is the only wheel on which victory and success ride.

Confidence is something that is not thought in the lecture room.  No church or mosque can give you confidence without you practising. There are an appreciable number students' associations on campus that are panaceas to those who lack confidence to speak in public. Students' Parliament stands tall when it comes to the associations that repose confidence on students. You can confirm this by asking those students who have authority over public speaking, where they learnt that. Students' Parliament does not only confer students confidence but also groom leaders on campus.

We also have the Legal Society and the Debate Society as the other powerful groups on campus that can help you overcome this unfriendly surmountable friend of confidence. Join any of them to fortify yourself against any big embarrassment like others experienced.

Conclusively, I am making a clarion call on the incoming NUGS executives to maintain the status quo if they can not raise the standards of this all important programme. It reminds us of our culture, tradition, customs and shows us where we are coming from. The down fall of a man is his inability to remember where he is coming from.
 Thank you.

Derbie Raphael
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