Entertainment is not just a job, it is a calling – Cornell Udofia

By Ayo Onikoyi

 In a bold and heartfelt code astatine the PEFTI Film Institute graduation ceremonial connected Friday September 12, 2025, Amb. Cornell Udofia, PRO of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Lagos Chapter, delivered a beardown connection to Nigeria’s adjacent procreation of entertainers: Stay focused, enactment clean, and instrumentality your trade seriously.

Addressing the graduating students, Udofia advised aspiring talents to debar career-killing habits specified arsenic cause abuse, cultism, immorality, and different destructive societal vices that person ended the journeys of galore once-promising entertainers.

“Entertainment is not conscionable a occupation — it is simply a calling,” helium said. “If you’re stepping into this industry, recognize that it demands discipline, focus, and integrity.”

Udofia, who is simply a prolific Media and PR Expert praised President Bola Tinubu government’s efforts successful younker empowerment done quality capableness improvement and entrepreneurship programs. He noted that with the close mindset and values, young creatives person the imaginable to go manufacture moguls and thrust the system forward.

He besides reminded the assemblage of the tragic outcomes faced by respective erstwhile stars who mislaid their mode to hedonism and motivation collapse, ending up successful rehab, down bars, oregon worse.

“There’s a agelong database of talents who had it each — fame, money, fans — but mislaid it owed to mediocre choices. Don’t go a statistic,” helium cautioned.

Amb. Udofia who is the Convener of cMC Africa awards for Excellence expressed assurance that the graduates and endowment hunt participants would emergence to marque meaningful contributions to Nigeria’s booming amusement sector, which continues to supply monolithic employment opportunities crossed the country.

He closed with a passionate appeal:

“If you person a imagination and a passionateness for this industry, defender it. Sharpen your skills, enactment grounded, and ne'er compromise your values. This manufacture tin alteration your beingness — but lone if you respect the journey.”

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