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Explore Akwa Ibom Vo l u m e 1 , N u m b e r 1 UGE: Building an Akwa Ibom for all Akwa Ibom: An Investment Destination People, Arts & Culture www.akwaibomstate.gov.ng f © Ministry of Information & Strategy 2021 Free Copy for more on Akwa Ibom CALL our Info HOTLINE 070 0000 0001 call, text & whatsapp www.akwaibomstate.gov.ng Inside... Inside Akwa Ibom Quick Facts 04 Editorial Suite 05 Now, Akwa Ibom is Home 10 Akwa Ibom is Home to Foreigners 12 Akwa Ibom is a Destination for any Serious Business Person 12 Tropicana Mall 16 Investment Opportunities 18 Akwa Ibom Udom Emmanuel in the Eye of Others 23 The People and Culture 07 Some Places of Interest 29 ...Potentials Tourism The Bridge of No Return The 21 Storey 13 Ibeno Beach 14 09 Dakkada Tower Ikot Ekpene Raffia UGE: Building an Ibom Air: Redefining the 21 Akwa Ibom for all 26 Nigerian airspace' Editorial Team Publisher Editor Graphics The Ministry of Information and James Edet Nsikan Ekwere Strategy/Nouveau Edge PR Edidiong George Production Editors Editor-in-Chief Aniekan Ukpong Photography Comrade Ini Ememobong Idris Mabadeje Mbedabasi Etim (Carrot) Editorial Adviser Ubokobong Udo Akpan Contributors Inyang Jameson Annie Essienette Concept Glory James General Editor Nouveau Edge PR Marvelous Friday © A Production of The Ministry of Information and Strategy/Nouveau Edge PR for more on Akwa Ibom, call our Info HOTLINE 070 0000 0001 03 Explore call, text & whatsapp Akwa Ibom AKWA IBOM Quick facts Dakkada Tower, Uyo Area: 7,249 Square kilometers o 0 Ibom Location: Lying between Latitudes 4 32" and 5 33" Connection, Uyo North and Longitudes 7035 and 8025 east. Bounded by Rivers, Cross River, Abia States and the Gulf of Guinea on the East, West, North and South respectively Population: About 7,000,000 people Vegetation: Green foilage of trees and shrubs with 129km coastline from Oron to Ikot Abasi. Climate: Dry season ( November - March), Wet season IBOM ICON Hotel & (April - October) Average temperature ranges from Golf Resort, Uyo 230 to 310 centigrade. Political Setting: 31 LGAs with Uyo as the State Capital Main Economic Activities: The main economic activities of the people are fishing (for riverine and coastal dwellers), farming (mostly for upland dwellers), trading, artisanship and white-collar services. A robust public sector employs significant proportion of the state labour force. Growth Rate: Akwa Ibom State average growth rate is estimated at 3.2% for more on Akwa Ibom, call our Info HOTLINE 04 Explore 070 0000 0001 Akwa Ibom call, text & whatsapp Editorial Suite EXPLORING NIGERIA'S BEST KEPT SECRET reasures are usually hidden, earned a prime spot in history- T even by nature. Precious the colonialists landed here, the stones and materials are amalgamation decree was carefully hidden far beneath the signed here, Christianity found surface of the earth, making an entry route through here, the extraction an onerous task. first community organized this state is the only From experience, the mining scholarship scheme was birthed and exploration of minerals and here and so much more. History state to own and “ other precious gems have been has always been made here. In operate an airline in a result of man's intentional contemporary times, this state is the entire continent; search and strenuous digging. the only state to own and the most intelligent operate an airline in the entire building in the Nigeria's best kept secret is her continent; the most intelligent treasure- a land of promise , building in the country (Dakkada country (Dakkada Akwa Ibom State. This piece of Tower) is sited here, this is the Tower) is sited here; God's own real estate is carefully home of the most beautiful this is the home of hidden at the bottom of the Christmas village in the country the most beautiful map of the country, bordering and the originators of the Christmas village in the Atlantic Ocean and providing biggest carols festival in the a strategic gateway to the world(with a Guinness Record to the country and the country from any part of the back up). You are about to originators of the world. The land is very fertile explore history and if you may, biggest carols festival and is rich with humongous be a part of it. in the world (with a natural resources. The people Guinness Record to remain the best resource of the We hope that away from this land, they are industrious, publication, you'll take out time back up). intelligent and remarkably to physically explore the hospitable. abundant beauty, lavishly spread on this piece of God's The state is the safest place in own real estate, which has the country, defined by beautiful remained and will for ages ” scenery all through the stretch remain, Nigeria's best kept of the geographic boundaries. secret. This is a state that has always Comrade Ini Ememobong for more on Akwa Ibom, call our Info HOTLINE 070 0000 0001 05 Explore call, text & whatsapp Akwa Ibom Bridge of No Return, Ikot Abasi Unity Park & Museum, Uyo 1929 Women War Memorial, Nest of Champions, Uyo Ikot Abasi Beautiful landscape Abundant resources Vast oppounities Home away from home The People, Culture and Potentials kwa Ibom, Nigeria's linguistic heritage, the engage in farming. A21st State was presence of many local Other traditional created on September languages spoken by the occupations of the 23, 1987 by the ethnic groups in the people are fishing, AKWA IBOM STATE promulgation of Decree state. trading, hunting, 24 of that year by the woodcarving, raffia THE PEOPLE then President, The cultural works, blacksmithing, Commander-in-Chief of homogeneity is also pottery, iron works, arts AND CULTURE the Armed Forces of the epitomized in the and craft creations. ...POTENTIALS Federal Republic of similarities in folklore, Based on the 2019 Nigeria, General Ibrahim songs, dances, foods projected population Badamosi Babangida. beliefs and mythology. figures, the state has an Akwa Ibom people are estimated population of The people of Akwa very industrious, about 7,000,000 people. Ibom are culturally resourceful and The annual growth rate homogenous with a hospitable. Majority of of the population is common identity and the rural populace projected at 3.4%, with for more on Akwa Ibom, call our Info HOTLINE 070 0000 0001 07 Explore call, text & whatsapp Akwa Ibom The People, Culture and Potentials the average population the country, it is also a and gypsum. gravel, salt, silver nitrate, density of 680 very rich source for a The State is also silica sand and kaolin inhabitants per square wide variety of fishes endowed with rich that can be meter. and sea foods including deposits of limestone, commercially exploited. catfish, barracuda, blue Akwa Ibom State is a marlin, squid, sardine, reservoir of wealth. It is croakers, shrimps, like a beautiful bride prawns, crayfish, beckoning on tourist snappers and oyster. It and investors. The also offers huge State's fond sobriquet: opportunities for land of promise is not maritime development misplaced. With clement and admiralty matters. weather and a fertile The State Aerial-view of year 2020 Christmas Village,Unity Park, plays host to “Its 129km coastline is not only Udoudoma Avenue, Uyo some the longest in the country, it is multinational also a very rich source for a companies wide variety of fishes and sea and is one of f o o d s i n c l u d i n g c a t f i s h , the largest oil- barracuda, blue marlin, squid, producing sardine, croakers, shrimps, States in prawns, crayfish, snappers and Nigeria. oyster. It also offers huge Certainly, its opportunities for maritime alluring development and admiralty features make matters.” Dominic Utuk Avenue, Uyo at night the State an inviting land measuring 7,249 destination for investors km, the State holds a and tourists from all promise of exciting and over the world. Solid splendid opportunities and industrial minerals for leisure, investment which abound in the and wealth creation. State include; clay, glass and silica sand; Its 129km coastline is bentonite, limestone, not only the longest in gravels, sodium chloride Ibom Golf Course Source: Directorate of Information, Ministry of Information and Strategy for more on Akwa Ibom, call our Info HOTLINE 08 Explore 070 0000 0001 Akwa Ibom call, text & whatsapp Infrastructure Night view of Dakkada Tower THE 21 STOREY DAKKADA TOWER occupancy and motion By Glory James sensors, Digitally he 21 storey Smart For the fire system, the addressed lighting Toffice complex, From the second to the tower boasts of fire interface (DALI), network located in the Central twentieth floor office electric pumps, diesel switch for outdoor Business District of Uyo, accommodations are pump backup, Fire lighting motion sensor, Akwa Ibom State capital, provided to end - users extinguisher hose real, Solar fitted nano type has a tower as high as while the twenty-first technical rooms E30 facade panel to power 108.8 meters. The Five floor is a terrace where cabling for S90 fire, facade light at night as Star business guests, tourists and protection sprinkler well as Perimeter fence accommodation occupies investors can stand to system, intelligent smoke light. an area of 18, 639.50 have a glimpse of the detectors and fire alarm meters square on a beautiful landscape of panel connected to the The 21 storey smart massive site area of the capital city. CCTV room. The state-of- building makes room for 48,200.00 meters square, the-art communication video conferencing, thus making room for a 350 It has an access control gadgets of the putting in place capacity car park. with such components intelligence building are necessary cameras and like, the card reader, in place with all efficiently managed The Tower has 4 biometric control accessories of a public workstation.