November 20th 2008 has been earmarked as the commencement date of the Abuja cultural carnival by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism. At that event, hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ funds will be spent in an attempt to entertain the members of the powers –that- be and other hangers -on in the nation’s seat of power with very little financial resources going to the transportation and other logistical demands of the cultural troupes that would be brought into the nation’s capital for the short period that the fiesta would last. Already, the organizing committee headed by the respected Professor Ahmed Yerima has started running from pillar to post literarily, to brief Nigerians and members of the international community on the import, essence, and philosophy of the Abuja carnival which has become an annual ritual for officials of the Federal Ministry of culture and tourism. The Abuja cultural carnival to a lot of Nigerians does not have a soul, philosophy or any nationalistic or patriotic import but is a huge contraption aimed at funneling funds to the members of the political cabal that rules Nigeria.