THE LAND OF PROMISE…
Posted By admin on October 7, 2009
Akwa Ibom is made up of 27 local government areas, with Uyo as the capital city. Its major towns include Uyo, Eket, Ikot Abasi, Oron, Etinam, Abak, and Ikot Ekpene It has a population of 2, 359, 736 million based on the 1996 national census figures. As the third largest producer of crude oil in Nigeria, Akwa Ibom State, is one of most important economic resource bases of the Nation.
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- First Administrative Office
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- The historical Ibibio State Union Secretariat building at Uyo now a Nigerian Legion office
Incidentally, nothing much has been written of the state in spite of its rich history as a theatre of early European activities from the Portuguese era downwards, particularly, as the area served as the hinterland for the coastal city states of old Calabar and Niger Delta in the 19th century contact between Nigerian peoples and the Europeans. The reason for this stem from attention and emphasis laid on Old Calabar being the administrative headquarters of the area, which makes historians entwined its historical contribution as part of the history of old Calabar.