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Festivals in Nigeria, ... The Nupe day event is a traditional and festival celebration, ... Christmas is held on 25 December each year to celebrate the birth of ...
2016 festival. Calabar Carnival is an annual carnival held in Cross River State, Nigeria. [1] Also known as Africa's Biggest Street Party, [2] the carnival holds every December and was declared by the then governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke as an activity to mark Christmas celebration yearly. He said his vision for creating the ...
[9] [6] Moreover, the influx of the Nigerian diaspora back home during December prompts the staging of weddings, strategically synchronized with the congregation of friends and families for Christmas celebrations. [6] These weddings often span entire days, culminating in lively after-parties. [6]
The Akwa Ibom Christmas Carols Festival is a large gathering of carol singers in Nigeria.A concert featuring 25,272 carol singers at the Akwa Ibom Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, with Guinness World Records representatives in attendance, was officially certified as the largest such gathering in the world by Guinness World Records [1] on December 13, 2014, against a former record of 15,674 ...
Igue festival (also known as King's Festival) is a celebration with its origin in the Benin Kingdom of Edo State, southern Nigeria. [1] One tradition states that the festival date coincided with the marriage of Ewuare to a wife named Ewere. [2]
Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children. Families are struggling during the country’s worst cost ...
Thirty-five children have been killed in a crush at a Christmas funfair in the south-west Nigerian city of Ibadan, with six others hospitalised, the police say. The organisers had promised to give ...
Commemorates the return to Democracy in Nigeria. Independence Day: 1 October Commemorates the Independence of Nigeria from Britain. Christmas Day: 25 December Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus. Boxing Day: 26 December Christian holiday commemorating the day after Christmas.