Miss Ekiti, LOLA
ADEOYE beat out the 18 contestants to emerge winner of Miss Nigeria USA
2016. She was crowned by the outgoing queen Olutosin Araromi (Miss
Nigeria USA 2015).
Lola
Abeni Adeoye is a 2014 alumna of the School of Communications, Howard
University. Immediately following graduation, Lola entered Howard
University School of Law, where she’s currently a 3rd year JD/MBA
student.
At Law
School, Lola has the pleasure of serving as the President of the Sports
and Entertainment Law Students Association and Graduate Student Assembly
Secretary. She has had the pleasure of taking several intellectual
property related courses which has solidified her interest in becoming
an Entertainment Attorney. This past semester, she was honored to be a
Student Attorney in the Intellectual Property and Trademark Clinic at
the Howard Law Clinical Center, which gave her the experience needed to
be selected as an intern in Viacom’s Business and Legal Affairs
Department for BET Networks this summer. Outside Law School, Lola loves
to serve her community through various avenues, including her church
home Graceland Bible Faith and her beloved sorority, Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc.
As Miss
Nigeria USA 2016, Lola’s year of service will focus on her platform-
Suicide and Depression Awareness and Prevention; an issue dear to her
heart.
This
platform aims to expand the Nigerian Suicide Prevention Initiative from
Abuja into the remaining 35 states in Nigeria and to also lobby the
Nigerian government to review and update the Mental Health Act which has
not been reviewed since 1959! She hopes that through this, the stigma
of Mental Health in Nigeria will be broken and Mental Health issues
would be taken more seriously.