•Governor Umo Eno (C) Ime Okon, a tour guide, is popular with visitors to the iconic Ibom Hotels and Golf Resort. He is jovial, amiable and ever eager to help. At 44, he is one of the longest-serving staff of the famous ‘Five Star’, as Akwa Ibom people call the resort. Apart from his affable […]
•Governor Umo Eno It’s exactly 32 days since Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State dissolved the State Executive Council. Earlier yesterday, Tuesday, February 11, 2025, the new commissioner nominees list was sent out, effectively closing off the last page on a year-long maelstrom of speculations, anxiety and intrigue, all swept overboard. Like D...
It was Anietie Usen, the award winning journalist, author, and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on media, who first pulled back the curtain on Governor Umo Eno’s real friends in his article titled “A Governor and his friends”. The caption was a magnet. Like moth to a flame, readers were helplessly drawn to the […]
For the first time in Akwa Ibom history, a graphic insider account of a stormy political campaign that climaxed in the election of a governor, has been turned into a riveting book. For the third time in five years, Anietie Usen, the multiple award winning journalist and author, has written a gripping octavo, this time, […]

