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  2. Akwa Ibom State - Wikipedia

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    Akwa Ibom State is a state in the South-South ... during the Women's War and political activism through the Ibibio State ... of the Central Bank of ...

  3. Ibibio people - Wikipedia

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    Ibibio people are found in all Nigerian states and is one of the Nigerian ethnic group living outside of Nigeria after Yoruba and Igbo. Hence, significant number of Ibibio people reside in Europe and North America as well as other countries. In addition to their state of origin, Akwa Ibom State, significant number of Ibibio are found in:

  4. Mbot Abasi Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Ibom or Mbot Abasi Kingdom was a kingdom by the Ibibio people with its seat of government in Obot Okon Ita. The Mbot Abasi kingdom was located in present day Arochukwu, Abia State in Nigeria. Around 1630, a group of Igbo from Abiriba known as the Eze Agwu arrived in Ibom. This caused long term conflict and a stalemate known as the Aro ...

  5. Effiong Okon Eyo - Wikipedia

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    He was awarded Obong Ikpaisong Ibibio ye Anang by the traditional rulers of Ibibio and Anang thereby making him the highest traditional title holder in what is currently Akwa Ibom State. When Effion Okon Eyo was accused of masterminding the killing of his political opponents during the Nigerian civil war, He was summoned by the chiefs in 1982 ...

  6. New Evidence Ties World Bank to Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia

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    A year later, the bank lifted its ban, launching a new strategy of funding local and state governments rather than central authorities. In 2006, the bank approved $215 million in loans and grants to support a program, called Protection of Basic Services, that’s supposed to provide health care, education, fresh water and other support to rural ...

  7. Ini, Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    The system of traditional administration in Ini Local Government Area is the same as other Local Government Areas in Akwa Ibom State that also follow the ancient Ibibio Political System, where the highest political system was the Community (Obio/Idung) which had an autonomous Obong Idung or Obong Obio or Obong Ikpaisong.

  8. Ikono - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Eket - Wikipedia

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    Eket people belong to the Ibibio ethnic group of Akwa Ibom State who are said to be "the stock natives from whom most of the small tribes in the Qua Iboe and Calabar have sprung". [6] Not much had been written about the Eket people before the coming of the European missionaries , traders and colonialists.