By CrossRiverWatch Admin Governor of Cross River State Senator Bassey Otu has kicked off the 20th Carnival Calabar Dry Run 2024. The event marks the first of three dry runs that will be held before the main Carnival in December. Represented by the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Elvert Ayambem in
By Winifred Michael The Cross River State Carnival Commission has announced a change in the date of the first Carnival Dry Run, moving it from October 20 to October 13, 2024. According to the Commission, the decision was made to accommodate Carnival Calabar’s participation in an international event. Executive Secretary, Hon. Austin Cobham, apologized for
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu has blown a trumpet that the 2023 Carnival Calabar will be the best. He made the assertion during the flagging off of the 2023 first Carnival dry run, at the Millennium Park on Sunday in Calabar, the State capital. The
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The 2023 Carnival Calabar Dry Run has been announced by the Cross River State Government. In a press release signed and issued by the Executive Secretary of the State Carnival Commission Austin Cobham, states that the first dry run will be held on Sunday, October 15th, 2023 along the
CrossRiverWatch’s Entertainment Correspondent, Clement Oto-Obong better known as Walata Worldwide brings to you exclusive pictures from the 2022 Carnival Calabar’s first dry run. This year’s carnival with the theme: ‘Agro-industrialization’, was flag-off by Governor Ben Ayade on Sunday 16th October 2022. The seven competing bands are; Seagull, Passion 4, Masta Blasta, Bayside, Freedom, Diamond, and
By Jeremiah Archibong/Jonathan Ugbal Speculations that the 2015 edition of Carnival Calabar will not hold may have been put to rest as Cross River Deputy Governor, Prof. Ivara Esu earlier today afternoon at about 1:31pm flagged off the administration’s first Dry Run, a preliminary to what the State has come to tag as “Africa’s Biggest
by travel and tourism As the year gradually rolls to end, the organisers of Carnival Calabar have expressed their preparedness to host a world-class carnival that will offer more excitement, fun and business to indigenes, visitors and sponsors than previous editions of the annual carnival. In view of the development, Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross