•Governor Umo Eno Ndifreke Akpekong is a cassava farmer in Eket, Akwa Ibom State. Four years ago in 2022, he was operating as a struggling farmer in a local community in the hinterland of his LGA. The only trouble was that Akpekong was dealing with severe capital limitations that prevented him from expanding his cassava […]
•(L-R): Former governors Attah, Akpabio, Udom and Governor Umo Eno 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑧𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑝𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑠… T...
•Governor Umo Eno and daughter, Mrs Helen Eno Obareki Many years ago, precisely in 1999, I founded an evening newspaper in Lagos called ALIVE. Of course, I was the Publisher and Managing Director. Social media was not born yet. The Internet was just an infant but those were the heydays of popular evening newspapers in […]
•Founders of Newswatch magazine He now goes with the nickname of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. That’s because Ray Ekpu is the only surviving legend of the four legends who founded the legendary 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 Magazine. This historic magazine, that first hit the newsstands on January 28, 1985; revolutionised Nigerian print media by introducing fearle...
•Governor Umo Eno Early in the life of Governor Umo Eno Administration, more than three years ago, I wrote a story titled: GOVERNOR UNUSUAL. It was a simple but intriguing story of the new Governor of Akwa Ibom State, who was defying protocols and security do-and-don’ts, to reach out impromptu habitually to the less privileged […]
•Governor Umo Eno …From The Editor-in-Chief It is often said that vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. In Akwa Ibom State, we are currently living through such a moment. In the Health Sector, just as in the broader sectors of tourism, aviation, infrastructure, rural development, agro-mechanisation, transportation, edu...
•Governor Umo Eno (left) The enormity of this project speaks volumes of the magnitude and unlimited extent of the governor’s vision. Beyond vision, it takes a lion’s heart to contemplate and undertake the construction of a sprawling world-class medical ecosystem that bestrides 100 football fields like a colossus across five LGAs. G...
•Governor Umo Eno Professor Udeme Udofia, a specialised environmentalist at the University of Calabar and a known advocate of good governance, believes that Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State is a master strategist, a deep thinker and a go-getter, who is highly skilled at creating long-term plans to achieve specific goals. Not everybody agree...
•Governor Umo Eno (right) Fresh from the inauguration of International operations from the acclaimed, world-class Victor Attah International Airport last weekend, Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has shifted his attention and set his eyes on another word-class infrastructure in the centre of Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom State. Thursday, May 7,...
The first international flight to land in the international wing of the Victor Attah International Airport, VAIA, in Uyo, took place at 16:04 hours, Sunday, May 3, 2026. The airline was Ibom Air. The pilot was Captain Abdulkarim Abubakar and the co-pilot was EwongoAbasi Esara, one of the pilots trained by Akwa Ibom State Government […]
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