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27 December was mapped out as World Iyan Day during the carnival.<\/em><\/p>\n Ekiti State has hosted the maiden edition of the World Iyan Carnival, with the state’s rich culture displayed colourfully with thrilling performances.<\/p>\n The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Iyan (pounded yam) is a local cuisine peculiar to Ekiti indigenes.<\/p>\n On Monday, Ade Ajayi, carnival convener, said the carnival was meant to showcase Ekiti’s rich culture and improve the state’s economic status through tourism. He says the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> 27 December was mapped out as World Iyan Day during the carnival. Ekiti State has hosted the maiden edition of the World Iyan Carnival, with the state’s rich culture displayed colourfully with thrilling performances. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Iyan (pounded yam) is a local cuisine peculiar to Ekiti indigenes. On Monday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,17851,49167,9671,14293,17969,36847,257,4687,393,10026,254,5093],"class_list":["post-187643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-carnival","tag-colourful","tag-cultural","tag-debuts","tag-ekiti","tag-iyan","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-showcase","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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