Mr Tunde Afolabi, Chief Executive Officer, Create Ur World Agency (CUWA), an entertainment talent management company says more than 1000 youths have been trained in modeling by the Academy.
Afolabi said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos.
According to him, the Academy trains potential models on photo sessions, catwalk, poise, carriage, personality and creativity (talents), to fit in and excel in the fashion and entertainment industry.
“We are engaged in the business of promoting, managing and grooming talents as well as doing a lot of talent hunts.
“Most girls feel that because they have height and are beautiful, they can be models but modeling is not like that.
“Modeling is not all about height and beauty, there are rudiments, professionalism, and ethics that a potential model needs to know and imbibe.
“We in the Academy have realised this and have to take them through the rudiments and skills and we have been doing that for the past seven years.
“Girls and boys who want to be models need to have these training so that they would not be exploited by those who used and dumped them and they would start complaining,” he said.
Afolabi who is also CUWA Creative Director, said that most of the students were doing fine in modeling business locally and internationally, adding that they also adorned Billboards and fashion shows across the globe.
He said that what the Academy was doing was more of youth empowerment, adding that the entertainment industry provide employment for youths, as well as more job opportunities for them.
Afolabi who spoke on the scheduled Valentine African Beauty Pageant contest being organised by MJB Africa Foundation said the contestants would require such grooming by the academy.
He said that the girls would need to be groomed to be able to showcase their hidden potentials as well.
Afolabi said that the contest would look at brain, creativity, personality, knowledge of Valentine, beauty, poise and carriage, among others which the girls who want to participate should learn.
He said that the Academy also encouraged youths who wanted a career in modeling, to come for three months, three weeks and one-month training which would help them to go far in the industry.
He said that the Miss Valentine beauty pageant alone would attract jobs for creative artists, creative designers, tour managers, ushers, bouncers, makeup artists, photographers, and artists among others.
Afolabi appeal to government to create the needed environment for the entertainment sector to thrive adding that the sector provided job opportunities for youths.
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