Do Nigerians celebrate Halloween?

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Halloween in Nigeria? Trick or Treat!

October 30th marks Halloween, and in America and other European civilizations, this calls for spooky merriment.

According to Huffington Post, the following are features of Halloween:
  1. Jack-o-lanterns: The native americans and early pioneers in the United States discovered an abundance of Pumpkins! As they were generally plumply blossoming at this time of year, the art of carving them started. The purpose was still to ward evil spirits.
  2. Candy: This all started with candied apples. The apples were also subject to the harvest, then dipped in caramel and given to children. Commercialization of the theme over centuries had a good role in turning this into tiny Snickers amongst other things.
  3. Tricks: This is actually a fairly new development in Halloween festivities and first showed up in Albania in 1928. It became a ground for pranksters. (I'm not really sure why this happened, but it did). It took about 50 years for the tradition to make it to the United States.
(Click here to read the full origin of Halloween)

The question here is: do Nigerians celebrate Halloween? And how?
Considering the numerous peculiarities of the Halloween tradition, do you think Nigerians should celebrate Halloween?
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