Inspiration FM holds colourful Children’s Day carnival in Lagos (photos)

By Isa Isawade

Fun Factory on Admiralty Way in Lekki, Lagos played host to a large crowd on Sunday with parents and children thronging the colourful event organized by 92.3 Inspiration FM to mark the 2024 Children’s Day.

The remarkable event had a series of activities lined up to make participants’ experiences long-lasting.

The first of the activities which opened the event was a music and dance competition with lots of amazing and amusing dance steps and displays that captivated the audience.

At the end of the display, winners who were meticulously chosen after many stages of the competition, owing to their large population, were handsomely rewarded with cash prizes and other gifts donated by the numerous sponsors who partnered with Inspiration FM to make the event a fulfilling experience.

This was immediately followed by footballing exercises where the children were paired with parents perhaps to create a comical scene which was the case. Winners also emerged and were showered with gifts.

There were also quiz competitions of different hues staged by sponsors such as Pepsodent, producers of Pepsodent toothpaste; Maltina; Zenith Bank, Sedaap Supreme noodles and Cornerstone Insurance Plc.

Children and adults enthusiastically participated in the competitions because the sponsors had a lot of gifts to dish out. The sponsors also ensured that the children ate and drank to satisfaction from the variety of nutritious foods and drinks provided at the event.

Educational materials such as school bags, books, pens and pencils, attractive food flasks and water bottles were freely distributed to all children at the event.

Other funfair activities followed simultaneously with participants taking over the dance stage. They jumped, climbed, rode and swung with apparatus. The day will certainly remain memorable for many of the children.

When asked about the motivation behind organizing such a classic carnival for children, the MD/CEO of the electronic media organisation, Azubike Osumili, said creating happiness and a sense of fulfilment for children was among the core values of Inspiration FM. This, he said, was the reason the company has been organizing the event every year for many years now.

He lauded the contributions of the sponsors which made the program remarkable and urged them to keep coming every year to continue the great outing together.

Representative of one of the sponsors, Zenith Bank, Chinonsor Umeh said ” Today is a very great occasion. We are happy to be a proud sponsor of the Inspiration FM Children’s Carnival of 2024.

“We are in partnership with Inspiration. We feel best to give back to these children, and what better way to do that than to partner with Inspiration on this momentous occasion.”