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Argungu Fishing Festival Thrills Nigeria Riverfront Crowd
In Argungu Nigeria the annual festival opened with 2 000 nearly naked fishermen charging the Rima River using gourds as bobbers. The Emir arrived with dignitaries as locals and visitors watch the fishers haul 117 pound perch and prize winners receive bicycles and radios.
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Argungu
Nigeria
Rima River
Sarkin Kebbin Argungu
Emir of
Lagos
Rivers States
Mobolaji Johnson
Alfred Diete-Spiff
Col
Johnson
General Custer
Little Big Horn
Rima
Heen
Sokoto
Husain Tada
Hussain