Nigeria, June 30 -- South African authorities have begun the deportation process of former Miss Universe Nigeria 2024, Chidimma Adetshina, after officers arrested her in Cape Town in June for allegedly residing in the country illegally.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the development plunged the 25-year-old model into fresh legal trouble barely two years after her Nigerian heritage sparked fierce public scrutiny and backlash when she entered the Miss South Africa 2024 pageant.

Ms Adetshina, who was born in Soweto to a Nigerian Igbo father and a Mozambican mother, had advanced to the Top 30 of the Miss SA competition before the backlash intensified.

Miss Universe Nigeria organisers subsequently invited her to represent Taraba State, and she...