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Efik’s Cultural Day Of Glamour, Fun

It was a day of colours, glamour and extravagant display of cultural fiesta. It was a cultural festival like no other, a festival of dancing, a festival of traditional songs, festival of local delicacies and strong local liquors, festival of cultural attires, festival of masquerades and ultimately a festival of the people, for the people and by the people of Efik in Calabar, Cross River state.

United by culture, said to be more powerful than religion, hundreds of Efik sons and daughters from far and wide and across all walks of lives, had held residents of the Federal Capital Territory …

Onitsha Ofala: Globacom’s 9 Years Of Cultural Fanfare

Onitsha Ofala: Globacom’s 9 Years Of Cultural Fanfare

InΒ leaps and bounds, the Onitsha Ofala celebration has grown over the years to become one of the biggest traditional festivals in Black Africa, and, unarguably, the biggest festival in South East Nigeria. The recent success story of Ofala is attributable, to a large extent, to the ingenuity of the giant telecommunications network, Globacom, which has in the past nine years supported the festival as the major corporate sponsor, and the innovativeness of the custodian of the festival, the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe.

The uniqueness of Ofala is not only embedded in the razzmatazz that characterises the …