Governor Otu unveils 2024 Carnival Calabar theme “Our Shared Prosperity”
About nine months to the celebration of another episode of Africa’s largest street party in Cross River, Governor Bassey Edet Otu has unveiled 2024 theme of the Carnival Calabar.
While presenting the theme of the 2024 Calabar festival “Our Shared Prosperity,” Governor Otu noted that since tourism cannot thrive in an atmosphere of chaos, the security of lives and properties has been given pride of place in his administration.
He performed this duty on Sunday March 24, 2024 at Transcorp Hotel, Calabar reiterating that making the carnival a bigger platform remains one of his campaign promises.
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Calabar Carnival is an annual festival held in Cross River State, Nigeria also known as Africa’s Biggest street party. It holds every December of the year.
Also Nigeria’s former Minister of Culture and Tourism, High Chief Edem Duke has implored the Federal Government of Nigeria to adopt Carnival Calabar as one of the Nation’s tourism attraction.
He was speaking at the unveiling of the 2024 Calabar carnival theme “Our Shared Prosperity” in Calabar, adding that as bands mesmerize onlookers in vibrant costumes and parade/dancing steps makes the festival a thing of global recognition.
In 2023, No less than 15 states, including the host Cross River, rolled out the drums, dressed in vibrant colourful traditional attires to the amusement of thousands of fun seekers who lined the carnival route from the millennium park through Mary Slessor avenue and Marian road with a detour at Efio-Ete roundabout via Mcc road connecting Murtala Mohammed highway and terminates at U.J. Esuene Stadium for the grant finale parade by participating bands.
Calas Vegas band led by High Chief Edem Duke won the first position, Passion 4 band led by Chief Chris Akigbe and boasting the most wins in the carnival’s history, second place, while Seagull band led by Senator Florence Ita-Giwa took the third position beating other favourite bands.
By: Archibong Emmanuel
(Snr. Reporter)
