Calabar standstill as Precious Okoye is crowned Miss Africa 2022.

Precious Okoye, a Nigerian model, was overjoyed after winning the Miss Africa Calabar pageant. The dark-skinned model couldn't contain her joy when she was named winner and crowned by the judges on Tuesday.

According to her, emerging Miss Africa 2022 will give "me the opportunity to advocate for quality education through skill acquisition for the youths. I intend to use my incentive to select 200 farmers who will benefit from my fertilizer initiative, which will help African farmers and boost productivity."

She said further that her role will "help create effective job opportunities which will help fight hunger and poverty not just in my country, Nigeria but in Africa at large. "My ambition is to volunteer as a Nigerian representative at the United Nations (UN), which will provide me with a platform to serve humanity," she added.

Winning the crown feels like a dream to her, and she will always remember the moment. "I am overjoyed to have been crowned Miss Africa because this has always been my dream for my modeling career. The platform will allow me to tell my story, empower young people, and proudly fly my country's flag, and I can't wait to do my best to make you all proud," she added.

She stated further that being passionate about her modeling life and other humanitarian services she is involved in helped her to keep learning something new about life and survival daily, adding that "I am self driven, with interpersonal communication skills, which makes it easy to relate with people.