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20-year-old Frances Takyi-Mensah, a student of the University of Ghana was on Friday night crowned Miss Ghana 2007.
Miss Takyi-Mensah becomes the 25th lady to wear the coveted crown since the inception of the pageant 50 years ago.
She won from a pool of ten contestants, each representing the ten regions of Ghana in a keenly contested pageant.
Apart from being declared the Golden Jubilee Queen, Ms. Takyi-Mensah also repeated history, representing the Greater Accra Region where the very first woman to be crowned Miss Ghana in 1957, Monica Amekoafia represented
Miss Amanda Otchere-Boateng of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology representing the Brong Ahafo Region emerged the first runner-up while Doreen Delali Akpai also of the KNUST, was the second runner-up. She represented the Volta Region.
For her prize, Miss Ghana 2007 was presented with the keys to a new Jaguar X-Type.
She was also given a cheque for ¢25 million.
The first and second runner-ups also received cheques for five and three million cedis respectively.
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