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Akwa Ibom State Government is the government of Akwa Ibom, concerned with the administration of the state ministries. The government consists of Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. The government is headed by Udom Gabriel Emmanuel who is the policy-maker and often assisted by the commissioners and other civil servants of the state.
This is a list of the government ministries of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Each ministry is headed by the commissioner, assisted by a Permanent Secretary. [1] [2] [3]
Governor 2 January 1992 18 November 1993 NRC: Yakubu Bako [5] Administrator 15 December 1993 21 August 1996 Military Joseph Adeusi: Administrator 21 August 1996 9 August 1998 Military John Ebiye: Administrator 9 August 1998 29 May 1999 Military Victor Attah [6] Governor 29 May 1999 29 May 2007 PDP: Godswill Akpabio [7] Governor 29 May 2007 29 ...
Less than two months afterwards, the Igbo-majority former Eastern Region attempted to secede as the state of Biafra; in the three-year long Nigerian Civil War, now-Akwa Ibom was hard-fought over in the prelude to the Invasion of Port Harcourt while people from Akwa Ibom were persecuted by the Biafran forces as they were mainly non-Igbos. [22]
Governor: Umo Bassey Eno [2] Deputy Governor: Sen. Akon Eyakenyi [3] Secretary to the State Government: Prince Enobong Uwah [4] Head of Civil Service Effiong Edem Essien [5] Commissioner of Justice and Attorney-General Uko Essien Udom, SAN [6] Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Offiong Offor [7] Commissioner of Finance Nsikan Linus Nkan [8 ...
Ikono is a Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, located in the South South of Nigeria. [2] It is bounded at the North, by Ini Local Government Area, South by Abak and Uyo Local Government Areas, East by Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area and West by Ikot Ekpene, Essien Udim and Obot Akara Local Government Areas.
(Source: List of Recognized Villages and Clan, Akwa Ibom State Official Gazette, 2006). The local government area of Ini consists of ekpuks (lineages/macro-families) which make up autonomous, recognized and gazetted villages/communities. The communities/villages are grouped into one of the five clans of Ikono, Ikpe, Iwerri, Itu Mbon Uso and Nkari.
Victor Attah was elected governor of Akwa Ibom in 1999 on the Akwa Ibom PDP platform, and was re-elected in 2003. He was elected Chairman of the Forum of the 36 Governors of Nigeria in 2003. [3] In 2001, Attah travelled to the United States with as many as 21 people in search of foreign investors.