Stephanie Alfred, a student of Babcock University in Ilishan-Remo in Ogun State, has become the ”Face of 9ja” of the Beauty model competition in Badagry, Lagos.
The 17-year-old student has defeated 19 other participants to come victorious in the first phase of the model competition, Sunday night at the Badagry Theatre, in Lagos.
student of Economic and Statistics, beat 19
Alfred who is 6.2ft tall hails from Brutu Local Government Area of Delta.
It was gathered that the 18 year old Miss Anuoluwapo Awe, from Kogi State was the 1st Runner-up while the 20 year old Miss Memunat Amino, from Edo State became the 2nd runner-up.
It was gathered that Alfred, the Delta born model was compensated with cash prize of N200,000 plus other consolations prizes.
Consolation prizes were also given to the first and second runner-up winners.
Miss Sarah Ojehonmon, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the 9ja Beauty Model, said the objective of the model competition was to create an avenue for the display of the beauty of Nigeria’s ethnicity, culture, religion and greatness.
Ojehonmon said Nigeria has lots of talents and creativity to show to the world.
“These models are young Nigerians who are displaying the beauty of Nigeria to the world.
“We want to use this platform to reach out to the world that the 9ja beauty model is capable of changing, preaching to the world that Nigeria is beautiful.
“The winner of the contest today has a pet project to embark on and this is to empower physically challenged girls that cannot see or walk.
“These people have been neglected in the past forgetting that they can still be creative to help themselves and society,” she said.
“This beauty pageantry is not gender-based, this is the first edition that’s why they are all females between the age 15 to 29, males can also be part of this pageantry for the subsequent contest.
While expressing his view, the General Manager, 9ja beauty model, Mr Jeremiah Aluya said:” beauty pageantry or modeling is not all about coming on stage to show yourselves.
”It is more about what can be done as a male or female to help society because anyone that is impacting life is already a model,” he said.