"One picture one story week #68"

Happy new year beautiful people, I'm so excited we all made it to the new year may God alone be praised.
I believe you ate all the chicken and the rice and every other food related to the season and you celebrated with family and friends because it's actually a season to share love.

Thank you @suboohi for your consistency on this contest, I still remain your friend @tripple-e.

In that same spirit of festivities, I want to share a picture that's relating to the season.

So let's get started

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The picture shared above is one of the slides from Calas Vegas band; the winner of the just concluded 2024 calabar carnival.

I guess you've heard or read about the biggest street party called "Calabar Carnival", that took place in one of the state in Nigeria known as "Cross River State" which the state capital is "Calabar" with the slogan as the "people's paradise".

This carnival came to be many years ago through one of the former governors Donald Duke, a creative, erudite and a fun loving gentleman who did not only introduced carnival but as also made it as the State trademark where people from all walks of life see the state as a tourist center.
And this has really brought in immerse development into the state.

So every year the carnival team would come up with a theme and would do everything like the costumes, the colours, the music etc to portray that theme.

I almost type this year's theme🤣, you know three days ago was last year, so the theme for 2024 was "Our Shared Prosperity".

There are different bands who compete among themselves, yeah it is always a competition because cash price is involved.
And the bands are:
Passion4 band
Calas Vegas band
Freedom band
Bayside band
Seagull band etc .

I think those are the outstanding and pronounced bands.

And the Calas Vegas band emerged the winner of 2024 Calabar Carnival 💃💃💃💃.

I hope to see you someday in the biggest street party.