Comments on: Reflections on Christmas in Lagos /2025/12/25/reflections-on-christmas-in-lagos/ Truth and Reason Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Owo /2025/12/25/reflections-on-christmas-in-lagos/#comment-331040 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:39:59 +0000 /?p=1160222#comment-331040 In reply to Aguiyi.

“When the Eyo festival was unveiled in the PBT's house, the guests were wearing a hat emblazoned with a Crescent and Star. Which is a Muslim Symbol.” Alarming! Telling.

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By: Aguiyi /2025/12/25/reflections-on-christmas-in-lagos/#comment-330997 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:31:17 +0000 /?p=1160222#comment-330997 "But I wake up in Lagos today for the first time on a Christmas Day due to reasons far more ennobling than ‘Detty December’—whatever that may mean…With archival materials, the Lagos monarch took me through a history of the Eyo festival which was first held on 20th February 1854 for Oba Akitoye"
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We have to start being mindful of "cultural appropriation" in Nigeria

When the Eyo festival was unveiled in the PBT's house, the guests were wearing a hat emblazoned with a Crescent and Star. Which is a Muslim Symbol. So unless Oba Akitoye (who was not a Muslim, but a practitioner of Yoruba traditional religion), and other Obas of Lagos that followed him, used the Crescent and Star as a symbol of the Eyo festival, putting the Cresent and Star on Eyo hats is cultural appropriation

Regarding Detty December. Lagos has always been a party city. In the 1980s and 1990s there was "Lekki Sunsplash" in Lagos every December. And even before that, the end of year period, in Lagos, was always a festive period. So, describing the entire month of December as "detty December" is not the way to go. Even if Lagos wants to use it as a tourist magnet because detty December may be a fad that fades.

Clearly, Gen-Z , diaspora Nigerians, etc, have discovered December's night life. Especially in Lagos. So detty December should rightfully be added as one of the festivities that are celebrated in December, amongst others:

1. Christmas (the birthday of our Lord and Savior ) 25th December to 1st January;
2. Kwanza (an African American Cultural Celebration) 26th December to 1st January;
3. Hanukkah (an eight-day Jewish festival of lights celebrating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem) 14th December to 22nd December;
4. End of year festivities (20th December to 2nd January); and
5,. Detty December (a month of partying and merriment) December 1st to December 31st

The 2025 Ofala festivities was also a cause of concern. Yes, Globacom generously sponsored the event. But the Globacom marketing team were too heavy handed. Their sign boards were everywhere. Their print and TV adverts read something like this "Globacom-Ofala". At some point, it became unclear whether it was Globacom that was being celebrated as opposed to Ofala. A 400-year old Igbo spiritual event

♪ O' ti se ooo… Baba ti se ooo…
O' ti se ooo… Baba ti se ooo…♪

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By: Fowad /2025/12/25/reflections-on-christmas-in-lagos/#comment-330977 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:30:30 +0000 /?p=1160222#comment-330977 Christmas can still be fun as it used to be in the past if we are prepared to be our brothers keepers. For now all we think about is how to be better than everybody else and that is not only damaging to society it is retrogressive at the end of the day. Both CAN and PFN working and collaborating with the churches deliberately and genuinely will cascade into national development agenda if they work out the modalities very properly. Right now many are busy rushing out to Britain and America to celebrate Christmas when they can make it worthwhile in their own country .

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By: the masked one /2025/12/25/reflections-on-christmas-in-lagos/#comment-330970 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:30:03 +0000 /?p=1160222#comment-330970 Do They Know It's Christmas?

What a wicked irony!
Some still know this is Christmas!
Some had several invites for sumptuous dinners and exotic wines!
But out there they're many who don't know it is Christmas!
Out there it is a world of dreaded fear and hopelessness!
Out there it is tear, sorrow and blood!
All they hear is sound of doom!
How will those forget a corrupt, inept and opaque taskmaster that doctors tax laws!
A wicked leader that chastises with barbed wire!
It is hard to convince those to have fun and smile for a while and forget their sorrow when they don't wear pretenses! When they are destitute of hope!
This time prayer is not enough!
Help them remove the wicked Pharoah! Restore hope! Bring back genuine smile! Not pretenses! That's the best Merry Christmas wishes!

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