Eta Uso's Mind Scripts

The 2011 Calabar Christmas Festival was without doubt a major success. However, unlike previous years where I always wrote a lot about the carnival activities, this time around, I would let the few pictures below to speak for themselves. :) I and Mercy @ d Calabar Christmas Carnival 2011

I could not be anywhere else!!! The 2010 Calabar Christmas Adult Carnival was as usual, the best and biggest street Party / Carnival. You could not afford to be anywhere else. The Calabar Christmas Adult Carnival is an international event that occurs on the 27th of december each year and as usual, its always a blast.  Every year, the crowd that comes out to watch the carnival keeps growing at a tremendous pace and all accomodations in the city are always fully occupied. Also, for the first time ever, the Calabar Christmas Carnival also witnessed a live street fashion show of which I saw live but I just somehow did not take pictures of it. Although, while every year's carnival is always bigger than the previous, I did something unusual this year. Can you guess? I actually did not watch most part of the carnival although I was at the centre of it. The reason was that, just as previous years, the carnival always brings in massive crowds from all works of life and this year'...

I was There!!! The 2010 Calabar Christmas Carnival (Children's Category) was a blast. The Children's Carnival is an International yearly event that occurs on  the 26th of December every year and it is always a show-stopper. The best part of this is that, my presence at this year's (2010) children's carnival was actually my first time in attendance.  Like previous years, I always preferred staying away from the  children's carnival and stay back to prepare myself for the Adult  Carnival that takes place on the 27th but this time around, I had no  choice, I had to attend the children's carnival as I had a very good  friend of mine who came in from Abuja and wanted to attend both the  children's and adult's category. From Left: Eta Royalty Uso and Abdulkareem Ibrahim It was my first experience and just as the previous years editions that  I had always been briefed about / watched on tv, this year's edition  was also worth its weig...

The 2009 edition of the Carnival Calabar held on December 27 deviated from the norm. Unlike the four previous editions which started in the morning and ended in the night, the event not only held on a Sunday (the first time it would hold on the day), it also started around 3pm and ran to around 5am of the following day. Though some people felt the carnival could have been shifted to the next day if the organisers really wanted people to enjoy their church service, Carnival 2009 was not devoid of its characteristic pomp and ceremony. Despite the five competing bands - Freedom Band, Masta Blasta Band, Bayside Band, Seag ull Band and Passion Four - and the non-competing b ands taking off at Millennium Park after the scheduled 2pm, people; old, young and children, lined the streets well into the night along the 12-kilometre procession route. The excitement was contagious as Nige rians and foreigners either followed the procession or waited for them on the well lit streets. If the streets ...

He came from Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State. Was barely known in the society, then suddenly, in 1999, he came into power as the Executive Governor of Cross River State and then “CHANGE CAME”. A man of vigour and great influence had assumed the seat of power. His visions were divine; they could not be comprehended by normal men. His walk was charismatic and his looks could cause ships to move on dry-land. This factors he possessed, made him sell out and made people follow up on his dreams even when they did not believe in it, as his dreams and vision for a state that was almost lost in history and politics of the nation was above mortal standards. He rose up like an Eagle, with a dream to place the map of the world in Cross River State and not vice-versa, and “He did IT!” The world was coming to Cross River. This living legend, whose name has been printed in diamond in the sands of Cross River State and never to be forgotten, re-enginee...

The 2008 Christmas Festival started in the City of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, on the 1st of December, amidst fun and excitement. The festival was marked opened with a city-walk against HIV which was then rounded up at the Cultural Centre Calabar by the launching and opening of the Christmas Village by the Governor of Cross River State, His Excellency, Senator Liyel Imoke and his dear wife Her Excellency, Obioma Imoke. Amidst lots of shows and activities that brought international and local artistes to perform free to the delight of citizens and foreign tourist including holiday-seekers, the main event that drew celebrities, individuals and corporate organizations from all works of life was the 2008 Christmas Carnival held on the 27th Dec. 08. The Carnival has been a routine since 2005 and the one of 2008 showed that there was always an upgrade every year. Turn-out was awesome and overwhelming, in attendance wer...