By: Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor
Barely a year after hosting its maiden edition at the Imo state popular Concorde Hotel, the organizers of New Nigerian Diva, Viewtrend Entertainment is set to host the second season of the reality show.
The three – in – one event: reality show, beauty pageant and talent hunt is aimed at discovering and nurturing talents inherent in young female Nigerians in the areas of acting, modeling and singing, thereby helping them actualize their dreams by providing them with the requisite platform/latitude to leverage on.
According to the Executive Producer of the show who doubles as the CEO of Viewtrend Entertainment Limited, Mr. Dozie Eboh, said this year’s edition promises to be more exciting and extremely engaging, adding that much preparation have been made as the star prize is a plot of land in Lagos state (which is sponsored by Prestige Virtue Court and publishers of Royalty International Magazine), modeling contracts, a return ticket to a foreign country of the winner’s choice plus recording deals.
Speaking on the challenges and the overall success of the maiden edition which had Miss Vanessa Mong beating fourteen other finalists to emerge the first ever New Nigerian Diva, Eboh notedthat preparations are in top gear to have a zonal auditions in South –South, South – East, North and South –West this time so to enable other interested female Nigerians to be part of its second edition.
However, he added that registration is currently on and that it will be closing by September 30, 2012 before the zonal audition dates that would be announced after the closure.
Also recalling, the National screening that held last year wrapped up with the selection 30 contenders that were camped at White House hotel in Lagos, and after thorough screening by its jury, only fifteen made it to the grand finale that held in Imo State with an award of excellence presented to some personalities in the country.
The last year’s grand finale which was hosted by the Imo State Government had some notable dignitaries and celebrities in attendance. As personalities like Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha (Deputy Speaker, Federal House of Representative), Rt. Hon. Ben Uwajimogu (Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly) , Dr. Mrs. Angela Uwakwem (Chief Medical Director, FMC, Owerri), Chief Emeka Offor, Sen. Osita Izunaso and host of others.
