Cultural Festival 2008

The rise of floats and companies that participated in the Rivers Province cultural festival baptise Carniriv 2008, our civilization our pridefulness ' got at roughly nine thirty five this morn 5 ^Th December 2008 when the Nigeria bike nine members conducted by Charley Boy drove their powered motorcycles, not merely to force out more lookers from where they skulking but to trill them.

Thenceforth, the floats, coming about 29, showing assorted autochthonic marine creature, birds and other cultural individualities of the accompanying groupings, drove out from the premises of the Catholic Institutes of Occident Africa along the Port Harcourt Aba expressway unto the route.

All the 20 local regimes hold floats including some corporate organisation, hostellers, Nollywood players also as Subject Youths Service Corps members that lined upward the stretched of Port Harcourt Aba expressway between the Rumuomasi, marketplace and the ordnance junctions.

It was at this point that the Province authorities right honorable Chibuike Amaechi and members of the Province executives councils joined in the emanation mounting up to the conducting float, a goodly ornamented typical canoe.

From this point, the floats processed to Airforce, Rumuola and the Waterlines junctions where some of the cultural groupings chance some convenient infinite to exhibit their dance stairs with tremendous exhilaration at with ingeminated shouting by lookers.

Some of the witness evince great joyfulness for the carnival, remarking that it holds rendered a forum for common sharing and drama together to demonstrate example the rich civilisation of the province.

They told the carnival holds holded the fearfulness that holds enslaved the people and given them the autonomy to come out without any doubtfulness to expose the rich civilization of the people of Rivers Province.

Already, Governor Amaechi told the carnival would be a annual event.

The last clip such carnival was formed in Rivers Province was in 1988.