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The University Preparatory Secondary School (UPSS) in Benin City, Nigeria, recently held its 2025 prom party — and it’s got social media buzzing. The event featured elaborate outfits, choreographed dances, and a display of style that rivals American high school proms.

UPSS has built a reputation for hosting flamboyant and lavish prom celebrations that always attract attention. In a previous year, students arrived in expensive cars, a video of which went viral. Since then, the school has continued to trend online, coming up with unique styles that many say mirror American prom traditions.

Some critics have accused them of copying the American style, while others see it as a refreshing twist on Nigerian school celebrations. Traditionally, such events in Nigeria are called Valedictory Services, but UPSS has always referred to theirs as Prom.

Watch the trending video and share your thoughts in the comments!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDEtgov5oQA?si=urydzgqh-f6793tO

These days, students are proud to show off material things but not proud to show off their grades. JAMB has reduced cut-off mark to 150, a score that didn't qualify for polytechnic in the past. Even the 150 is difficult for many of these "Prom" students to score without malpractice. Tụfịakwa!

I know that exam is not the true test of knowledge and grades shouldn't be used to measure intelligence sometimes. But someone who calls himself a student and is organising an event in the name of being a student should confidently display his school results.

In most of Nigerian universities these days, even the people that cannot explain their final-year-project topics rent expensive cars to sign out after writing their final year exams. We are now in a generation where secondary school students will absolutely rely on malpractice for junior WAEC exam and go ahead to throw an expensive party to celebrate having written the exam.

Prom party in Nigeria!!! 🤣😂🤣😂

I have been doing some research about Black Americans and how they happen to fall at the bottom despite their years of existence in the USA.

In my findings, I got to realize they massively adopted everything that was sold to them, that a majority of White that sold it to them detest.

Let’s starts from Prom, Blacks are mostly intoxicated by this Prom. Drillz celebrating violence are being promoted by White record labels to instigating them against one another. Where killing/hats is now a gold medal.

When will blacks realize that a Caucasian can never sell anything good to them. How do you believe the White man would have told you about Jesus if he was TRULY the way to salvation and eternal life.

Those guys will only sell what will brain wash you, reduce your population, decimate your family, or make you sterile.

In 2025, our race still asleep, and these foolishness we passing on to kids.

Prom Night go soon cast


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We self the do prom?
These person wey i dey see so no look like secondary school students oo

Funny people everywhere 😂

LeeSmart:
We self the do prom?
These person wey i dey see sl no look like secondary school students oo

I know this school very well in Benin city. That is how the kids are, na rich kids. If you see this prom live you go wan go weep for parents.

immortalcrown:
These days, students show off material things but are not proud enough to show their grades.

I know that exam is not the true test of knowledge and grades shouldn't be used to measure intelligence sometimes. But someone who calls himself a student and is organising an event in the name of being a student should confidently display his school results.

In most of Nigerian universities these days, even the people that cannot explain their final-year projects topics rent expensive cars to sign out after writing their final year exams.

You are very right, but just that theses days, school do all things to make sure their students results comes out in excellent form through exams malpractice and tipping exams officials. Parents do pay for all these and don't care if their children are not academically sound. Everybody just want good results without minding the long term effect on the society at large.

I like this school Dat year na rich kids flood am. Dat year me and some of my Aruba dey mount for ogula moat dey use beta hot slap collext those rich kids their phone. Dis na like 15 to 20 years ago Mara. I remember d day I achieved like 3 phones na abuma I March go hail dem. Chai I miss those days 💔

Kingsasian:
I know this school very well in Benin city. That is how the kids are, na rich kids. If you see this prom live you go wan go weep for parents.

Where's the school located in Benin?

Esthered:
Where's the school located in Benin?

Siluko road just after ogula junction.

Jamesmatic:
I like this school Dat year na rich kids flood am. Dat year me and some of my Aruba dey mount for ogula moat dey use beta hot slap collext those rich kids their phone. Dis na like 15 to 20 years ago Mara. I remember d day I achieved like 3 phones na abuma I March go hail dem. Chai I miss those days 💔

So are you now an Armed Robber or Assassin? or phone snatcher till date? Sha avoid anything Akwa Ibom cos na suya you go be..

OKOATA:
So are you now an Armed Robber or Assassin? or phone snatcher till date? Sha avoid anything Akwa Ibom cos na suya you go be..

Wetin I wan go find for Akwa Ibom Una people full Benin dey do keke and house help for survive if Una side clear dem for no com find greener pasture here. If I wan travel na uptown. I no dey Dat omila Mara gain most of my nigha collect for government hand na Yahweh show me mercy but now I be taker unto street level

Jamesmatic:
Wetin I wan go find for Akwa Ibom Una people full Benin dey do keke and house help for survive if Una side clear dem for no com find greener pasture here. If I wan travel na uptown. I no dey Dat omila Mara gain most of my nigha collect for government hand na Yahweh show me mercy but now I be taker unto street level

so the street dey bless u now?

emperor4love:
so the street dey bless u now?

Why you dey check me.

Jamesmatic:
Why you dey check me.

but all still be street from omila to online level

emperor4love:
but all still be street from omila to online level

You know d Mata.

Benin Boys


Play them Shalipopi's song.


Edo people can never do wrong in my eyes, I don't just know why sha, maybe my love for Edo people overshadows my rational thinking

The rich should do what makes them happy without breaking the law, the poor should also do what makes them happy without breaking the law.... That's my take on this.... Nothing wrong with this ..

Jamesmatic:
Wetin I wan go find for Akwa Ibom Una people full Benin dey do keke and house help for survive if Una side clear dem for no com find greener pasture here. If I wan travel na uptown. I no dey Dat omila Mara gain most of my nigha collect for government hand na Yahweh show me mercy but now I be taker unto street level

Thank God for your life. Just be careful in choosing your path. Remember what Yahweh himself said in Proverbs 14:12. There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

CoronaVirusPro:
Prom party in Nigeria!!! 🤣😂🤣😂

I have been doing some research about Black Americans and how they happen to fall at the bottom despite their years of existence in the USA.

In my findings, I got to realize they massively adopted everything that was sold to them, that a majority of White that sold it to them detest.

Let’s starts from Prom, Blacks are mostly intoxicated by this Prom. Drillz celebrating violence are being promoted by White record labels to instigating them against one another. Where killing/hats is now a gold medal.

When will blacks realize that a Caucasian can never sell anything good to them. How do you believe the White man would have told you about Jesus if he was TRULY the way to salvation and eternal life.

Those guys will only sell what will brain wash you, reduce your population, decimate your family, or make you sterile.

In 2025, our race still asleep, and these foolishness we passing on to kids.

Lol at the quoted. You’re using the internet, a phone, or a laptop 😀 tools your shallow mind couldn’t even conceive of if you were given a billion years.😁

For your information: all cultures have mixed and many have been erased entirely. The Anglo-Saxons were absorbed by the Normans. Gaul was swallowed by the Romans and eventually became France. The Arabian Peninsula saw countless local cultures wiped out and replaced with Islamic culture. This is not unique to Africa, that's how history works.

Africa’s tragedy is that we were isolated for much of history. While other continents were exchanging ideas, technologies, and institutions, raising the collective “technological floor”.. large parts of Africa were cut off by geography, thick forests, and poor navigable connections. Yes, we had great empires: Mali, Songhai, Benin, Aksum.. but make no mistake, we were no match for the great empires of other continents by the time we made contact with the west. The gap wasn’t racial it was a result of our consequences living in thick, inpenentrable enclaves.

Also cultural contact, even assimilation, isn’t inherently bad. The bad part is that we, as blacks, are too lazy and too distracted (distracted by crying and irrelevance) to use the leverage we have now, leverage our ancestors never dreamed of. The internet. Free access to global knowledge. Technology and education the world shares far more openly than in the past.

The Chinese were colonized, carved up, and humiliated, yet they rose by using the tools available to them. The Japanese were obliterated by two atomic bombs, but they didn’t waste decades hating the West..no, they rebuilt and now sit as equals at the table of power.

I implore my fellow blacks to start our own Renaissance, lets fast-track ourselves into that precarious committee of nations as equals, not as perpetual beggars for arms and aid. The constant ritual of blaming whites for how we failed is humiliating, self-defeating, and beneath the dignity of any people who claim they want respect.

Esthered:
Where's the school located in Benin?

at Siluko rd

CoronaVirusPro:
Prom party in Nigeria!!! 🤣😂🤣😂

I have been doing some research about Black Americans and how they happen to fall at the bottom despite their years of existence in the USA.

In my findings, I got to realize they massively adopted everything that was sold to them, that a majority of White that sold it to them detest.

Let’s starts from Prom, Blacks are mostly intoxicated by this Prom. Drillz celebrating violence are being promoted by White record labels to instigating them against one another. Where killing/hats is now a gold medal.

When will blacks realize that a Caucasian can never sell anything good to them. How do you believe the White man would have told you about Jesus if he was TRULY the way to salvation and eternal life.

Those guys will only sell what will brain wash you, reduce your population, decimate your family, or make you sterile.

In 2025, our race still asleep, and these foolishness we passing on to kids.

Arabs are doing the same thing to nigerian muslims. They've turned their brains upside down. Our people have been brainwashed to the point of seeing anything African as evil.

Jamesmatic:
I like this school Dat year na rich kids flood am. Dat year me and some of my Aruba dey mount for ogula moat dey use beta hot slap collext those rich kids their phone. Dis na like 15 to 20 years ago Mara. I remember d day I achieved like 3 phones na abuma I March go hail dem. Chai I miss those days 💔

Criminal!

Is funny to me 😂

CoronaVirusPro:
Prom party in Nigeria!!! 🤣😂🤣😂

I have been doing some research about Black Americans and how they happen to fall at the bottom despite their years of existence in the USA.

In my findings, I got to realize they massively adopted everything that was sold to them, that a majority of White that sold it to them detest.

Let’s starts from Prom, Blacks are mostly intoxicated by this Prom. Drillz celebrating violence are being promoted by White record labels to instigating them against one another. Where killing/hats is now a gold medal.

When will blacks realize that a Caucasian can never sell anything good to them. How do you believe the White man would have told you about Jesus if he was TRULY the way to salvation and eternal life.

Those guys will only sell what will brain wash you, reduce your population, decimate your family, or make you sterile.

In 2025, our race still asleep, and these foolishness we passing on to kids.

You are not far from the truth.
GMO food for example,comes to mind.

immortalcrown:
These days, students are proud to show off material things but not proud to show off their grades.

I know that exam is not the true test of knowledge and grades shouldn't be used to measure intelligence sometimes. But someone who calls himself a student and is organising an event in the name of being a student should confidently display his school results.

In most of Nigerian universities these days, even the people that cannot explain their final-year projects topics rent expensive cars to sign out after writing their final year exams. We are now in a generation where secondary school students will absolutely rely on malpractice for junior WAEC exam and go ahead to throw an expensive party to celebrate having written the exam.

The most unfortunate thing is that the material things they show off were all given to them...I wish they understand what it means.

They are in a hurry