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<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unenurhie community, Evwreni kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, is set to celebrate its annual Owhorhu masquerade festival on September 16 and 17, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A statement by the chief priest of Owhorhu deity, Olorogun Dr. Terry Jabin, after a meeting with stakeholders at the shrine, said: \u201cThis year\u2019s Owhorhu masquerade festival is scheduled to hold on September 16 and 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOn the 16th is for the watch night. It\u2019s a day set aside to visit family members and friends and to eat and drink together in love. While on the 17th is the main day for the masquerade dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis Owhorhu masquerade festival is our heritage and inheritance from our forebears in Unenurhie community. It\u2019s part of our origin and identity as a people. It\u2019s not a cultural festival we can allow to die away. This is why we are calling on all sons and daughters of Unenurhie community within and those in the Diaspora to come home and celebrate the festival with their family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are also using the opportunity to invite all our friends, cultural promoters, government officials and the general public to join us celebrate this year\u2019s Owhorhu masquerade festival,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The traditional head of the community, His Highness James Amuke, the Odion\u2019Rode of Evwreni kingdom, thanked all the traditional chiefs (Inugbedjo) and the organisers of the Owhorhu masquerade festival for promoting the cultural festival every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He called on Evwreni philanthropists and politicians and cultural promoting organisations to be of help to all the cultural festivals in Evwreni kingdom in order to preserve and protect them for the younger generations and not to allow them go into sudden extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n President-general of Unenurhie community, Mr. Williams Ilayah, said: \u201cThough I\u2019m a Christian by faith, but as the president-general of the community, I\u2019m also a custodian of the community\u2019s traditions and cultural values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is why I\u2019m calling on the Delta State government to make available advanced media technology like the television, radio and the internet in such cultural festivals. This will help to preserve, protect, promote and publish the cultural festivals to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are a lot of economic benefits attached to the celebration of cultural festivals in all over the world. This is the major task of the state ministry of culture and tourism. I also want to invite all our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora to bring all their children\/wards to catch a glimpse of the cultural festival this year. It\u2019s part of our origin and identity as a people. We shouldn\u2019t allow religion to destroy our cultural heritage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Owhorhu chief priest, Olorogun Dr. Jabin, however, announced that the cultural event will last for fourteen days with different cultural activities being carried out by different groups of people in each day of the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Young E. 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By Young E. Freeborn, Ughelli<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n