Helen Prest-Ajayi

Helen Prest-Ajayi, formerly Prest-Davies, (née Prest, born 17 September 1959), is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and former beauty queen.

Helen Prest-Ajayi was raised in England. She attended the International School Ibadan for her advanced levels and Obafemi Awolowo University for her undergraduate studies in Law prior to her pageantry .After she was crowned Miss Nigeria at the age of 19 in 1979, she represented Nigeria at the Miss World pageant and furthered her education at King's College London, earning an LLM. She was also active as a columnist in the 1990s. She is currently the CEO of Media Business Company. She is the granddaughter of the Nigerian founding father Chief Arthur Prest and daughter of politician Chief Michael Godwin Prest. She has three daughters. She married her first husband businessman Jimmy Davies in 1988.

Quotes

• A true-bred Nigerian will always have a million and one things going on at the same time.
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• One advice I always give to young people is that no experience is a waste. Try your hand at whatever your heart leads you to do.
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• Motherhood is not about you and your desires, it’s about the children that God has gifted to you. Children are not jewelry around your neck, neither are they meant for you to fulfill all your unfulfilled ambitions in your children.
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• The quality of a mother determines the quality of society. We need to take motherhood and mothers really more seriously. It is not something that should just be left to chance.
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• My best advice is whatever you put your hand to do, do it to the best of your ability. Everything you do eventually becomes part of your skill set and ends up being part of who you eventually become.
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