Anna Banner Explained

Anna Banner
Birth Name:Anna Ebiere Banner
Birth Date:[1]
Awards:Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria 2013
Occupation:Actress, model

Anna Ebiere Banner (born 18 February 1995) is a Nigerian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2013[2] by 2012 MBGN Isabella Ayuk and represented Nigeria at the Miss World 2013 pageant. She was appointed as the Special Assistant on Culture and Tourism to Governor Henry Dickson upon her reign as Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) in 2012.[3] In 2014, she made her acting debut in Super Story.[4]

Personal life

In 2014, she started a relationship with the famous Nigerian singer and songwriter Chinedu Okoli, popularly known as Flavour. Banner, aged 20, became pregnant with Flavour's child, giving birth to a girl, Sofia Okoli, on August 1, 2015 [5]

By 2016, Banner had cut ties with Flavour, alleging that the singer was cheating with former girlfriend and baby mama, Sandra Okagbue. Sandra is also a former beauty 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 University, 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. On February 1, 2021, she posted on her Instagram page how she struggled for years and almost took her own life.[8] She is now dating Abdullahi Ahmed Osikhena Sa’ad.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Happy 19th Anna Ebiere Banner! Inside MBGN World 2013′s Intimate Celebration in Lagos . bellanaija.com . 8 August 2014.
  2. Web site: 18yr old Anna Ebiere Banner crowned Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria 2013 and becomes Special Assistant to Bayelsa State Governor . GossipBoyz.com.ng . 8 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160531061244/http://www.gossipboyz.com.ng/2013/07/18yr-old-anna-ebiere-crowne-most.html . 31 May 2016 . dead .
  3. Web site: Dickson appoints MBGN winner Ebiere Banner Culture and Tourism adviser . vanguardngr.com . 8 August 2014.
  4. Web site: MBGN 2013 Anna Ebiere Banner to Make Acting Debut in “Super Story” . bellanaija.com . 8 August 2014.
  5. Web site: Why Singer Flavour LOVE TRIANGLE with Anna Banner & Sandra Okagbue Is So Strong?. africanglitz.com. 4 March 2021.
  6. Web site: 2018-11-30 . Flavour welcomes son with first babymama . 2022-07-16 . Vanguard News . en-GB.
  7. Web site: 2017-09-09 . I’m still in love with Flavour –Anna Banner . 2022-07-16 . Punch Newspapers . en-US.
  8. Web site: Former beauty queen Anna Banner recounts years of struggle with depression, says she was suicidal at some point. www.pulse.ng. 1 February 2021.
  9. Web site: Ukonu . Ivory . THEWILL . 2021-12-19 . Anna Ebiere Banner Elevated From Side Chic to Main Girlfriend . 2022-07-22 . en-US.