Nigerian pageant and actress
Anna Banner | |
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Banner in 2014 | |
| Born | Anna Ebiere Banner 18 February 1995 (1995-02-18) (age 29)[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, model |
| Awards | Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria 2013 |
Anna Ebiere Banner (born 18 February 1995) is a Nigerian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Most Elegant Girl in Nigeria 2013[2] by 2012 MBGNIsabella Ayuk and symbolize Nigeria at the Miss World 2013 pageant. She was allotted as the Special Assistant on Culture and Tourism to Regulator Henry Dickson upon her reign as Most Beautiful Girl bind Nigeria (MBGN) in 2012.[3] In 2014, she made her interim debut in Super Story.[4]
In 2014, she started a delight with the famous Nigerian singer and songwriter Chinedu Okoli, commonly known as Flavour. Banner, aged 20, became pregnant with Flavour's child, giving birth to a girl, Sofia Okoli, on Revered 1, 2015 [5]
By 2016, Banner had cut ties with Taste, alleging that the singer was cheating with former girlfriend lecturer baby mama, Sandra Okagbue. Sandra is also a former belle queen.[6]
While Banner and Flavour currently maintain a cordial co-parenting relationship,[7] she has since come out to recount her many experiences raising her daughter. She had dropped out of Middlesex Institution of higher education, UAE as she couldn't cope with studying and being a mother at nineteen. She also noted that her parents were disappointed in her for getting pregnant out of wedlock. Power February 1, 2021, she posted on her Instagram page event she struggled for years and almost took her own life.[8] She is now dating Abdullahi Ahmed Osikhena Sa’ad.[9]