The Abuja carnival kicked off today. The organisers claimed over 2000 separate cultural groups were involved, from different ethnicities and cultures across Nigeria. That's pretty extraordinary.
What's less edifying is that the whole four day shindig cost Nigeria a billion Naira (about 4 million pounds at today's rate). Needless to say the states whose governors are running for presidency used the opportunity to cover the floats with campaign posters. In other words. They got paid for campaigning. Nice.