Brazil’s Vai Vai Band wins Carnival Calabar as Ghana and Rwanda win big

The First ATQ News Edition of 2017

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Brazil’s Vai Vai Band wins International Carnival Calabar

The 2nd edition of the International Carnival Calabar was won by the Tobias Vai Vai band of Brazil. This is just as the Ghanaian and Rwanda dancers came second and third respectively. There were 13 countries participating in the event that started later than usual.

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The countries participating were all stranded in Lagos and Abuja by the Bad weather with the last batch arriving Calabar a few hours to the event.

The weather was so bad some Countries like Zimbabwe and Ukraine did not get to Calabar despite arriving Nigeria. Only 2 acrobats from Ukraine made it.

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