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The Beauty Peagent Sub-Committee, on behalf of the 2024 Edition of the Mkpani (Leboku) New Yam Festival Planning Committee hereby invite applicants who wish to contest for the 2024 Edition of Mr. and Miss Festival to grab their application forms @ETOVILE COMPUTER INSTITUTE, OLM PLAZA, OLD MARKET SQUARE, MKPANI, YAKURR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, CROSS RIVER STATE. Tel: 08032933855, Note that the contest is scheduled to hold on the 6th September, 2024 by 8pm @Mkpani Central Town Hall, Old Market Square, Mkpani while the Festival shall be on the 7th September, 2024. Congratulations!

The Obol Lopon of Mkpani, HRM Obol Sunday Obono Okoi, the 2024 Mkpani Leboku New Yam Festival Planning Committee and the entire good people of Mkpani community wish to joyfully invite you and your family to the 2024 Edition of Mkpani Leboku New Yam Festival scheduled for Saturday 7th September, 2024 at the Mkpani Old Market Square, Mkpani Yakurr L.G.A. Cross River State, Nigeria. by 12.noon. We would heartily appreciate your presence. For the Committee: Eteng Okoi Publicity Secretary, CSP Obeten Uket(Ledu) (CHAIRMAN PLANNING COMMITTEE)

The 2024 Mkpani LEBOKU Festival has been announced and tagged as the "Festival of Peace". The announcement period is the beginning of the peace period. Oral history about the period attests that, It is the period of security watch. The period of calmness. It is the period where the external enemies usual strike. The Leboku festival is the annual new yam festival celebrated in Mkpani and Yakurr in general. It is the event that marks the traditional year of harvest and gratification for the successes in labour. It is also the period of reconciliation and sober reflection in which the past is reminiscence to the present and unto the future. The celebration always takes place in September and some years early October. In Mkpani, the celebration of Leboku festival usually take place on September through October of the year. Oral history attests the fact that Leboku had its origin from the culture and religion of the tribal communities of Ekoi tribe where Yakurr tradition of or