Nigeria’s
leading telecoms network, Globacom, sponsored this year’s edition of the annual
Akwa Ibom Christmas Carol Festival. Support also United Bank for Africa, Le
Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort and Hensek.
The Carol
Festival held at the Uyo Township Stadium, Akwa Ibom, on December 19th
2015.
The Akwa Ibom Christmas Carol Festival has become a record-breaking event and a rallying point for Nigerians from all parts of the world during the yuletide season. The event will feature local and international artistes.
Present at
the Carol festival were; two Grammy Award winners (Donnie McClurkin, and Shirley
Caesar and Angella Christie) from the USA. Also present were Sammie Okposo, Asu
Ekiye, Chinelo De limono, I. T. Denis, Freke Umoh, David Eka, Anne Inyang and
Lara George who performed at the carol festival
The guest
speaker was the General Overseer of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, Bishop
Mike Okonkwo.
The event,
which debuted in 2008, has since grown in magnitude and repute to become a
glittering carnival of songs, dance, worship and fun recognized worldwide and
cited in the Guinness Book of Records.
In the year
2012 edition, Akwa Ibom Christmas Carol made history when it featured a
9,999-member choir, which was reputed to be the largest choir on the continent
at that time.
Last year,
the Christmas songs and fun event beat its own record when on December 13,
2014, at the Uyo Township Stadium; it featured the 25,272-person Godswill
Akpabio Unity Choir which became the largest number of carol singers on earth.
This record, set on Nigerian soil, beats the previous record set by a choir of
15,674 carol singers known as CENTI in Bogota, Columbia back in December 2013.
The milestone remains till date in the Guinness Book of Records.
Credit: premiumtimesng.com, gospotainment.com, thegazette.com.ng, akwaibomstate.gov.ng
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