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Etighi Unity Carnival: On The Verge Of Breaking A Guinness World
Record!
Newsdiaryonline Thur Oct 13,2011
Press release
Breaking the Guinness record seems to be the new trend in
Akwa Ibom State. The State entered its name in the
Guinness Books of Record for assembling the largest number of
choristers in a single event on December 26, 2008. 9,300
choristers were paraded in an interdenominational Christmas
carol night held at the 25,000-seater Uyo Township Stadium. The
choristers, who had Joseph Akpan as the choirmaster, were drawn
from the 31 local government areas of the state.
NATURE UDOH RECORDS, an entertainment and special events outfit
with operational headquarters in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom
state will on November 26, 2011, in the same venue, (Uyo
Township Stadium), draw an unparalleled total of 10,000 dancers
for “ETIGHI UNITY CARNIVAL”
The participants will dance the latest ETIGHI, a popular dance
rave across Akwa Ibom and Cross River States on the song CHOP
MONEY by P-SQUARE in an attempts to outdo Terrence Lewis’s
Guinness Book of World Records for the largest number of people
choreographed in the shortest time frame.
Terrence Lewis set a record by choreographing 1336 people at one
go in an hour. He broke a record that was set in Australia where
1235 people were choreographed within an hour.
ETIGHI is fast gaining popularity among other dance style
contemporaries. This dance style is quite unique because of the
coordination that happens between the hands, the body and hips
of a dancer.
What makes this record breaking attempt more exciting is that
the event is a UNITY CARNIVAL tagged NIGERIA UNITE. It is
tailored to inspire Nigerians to embrace unity, compassion, to
respect and to live in harmony with one another, no matter the
odds.
The goals of the carnival are:
•To promote and entrench a culture of unity in diversity.
•To Forge and stimulate the spirit of unity through dialogue
among all strata of Nigeria people in order to inspire and
awaken the energies for positive change.
•To undo tribal and ethnic prejudices, coming from the past and
now sitting in the present Nigeria.
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