{"id":80427,"date":"2025-12-17T06:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80427"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:08:22","slug":"maiden-groovy-december-festival-kicks-off-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/17\/maiden-groovy-december-festival-kicks-off-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Maiden Groovy December Festival Kicks Off in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The inaugural Groovy December Festival began Monday at Jabi Lake, Abuja, launching a 17-day celebration aimed at boosting tourism, culture, and entertainment in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kenneth Ibe-Kalu, Project Coordinator of The Emerging Abuja Projects, said the festival is part of the Imagine Abuja Programme, designed to engage residents and visitors with arts, crafts, and cultural activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbuja is usually quiet during this season. Our aim is to keep people entertained, engage youths, and support local businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers hope to attract over 50,000 participants by the festival\u2019s third edition.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, backed by the FCTA, Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, and private sponsors, will feature skating, horse riding, golf, boat rides, and cultural performances.<\/p>\n<p>Special hotel discounts have been announced for visitors, while events include the Groovy December Golf Kitty Championship and the Emerging Abuja Diaspora Investment Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The inaugural Groovy December Festival began Monday at Jabi Lake, Abuja, launching a 17-day celebration aimed at boosting tourism, culture, and entertainment in the city. Dr. Kenneth Ibe-Kalu, Project Coordinator of The Emerging Abuja Projects, said the festival is part of the Imagine Abuja Programme, designed to engage residents and visitors with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80429,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80427\/revisions\/80429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}