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In Nigeria’s South-South geopolitical zone, the state of Akwa Ibom is bordered on the east by Cross River State, the west by Rivers and Abia States, and the south by the Atlantic Ocean. The Qua Iboe River, which cuts the state in half before emptying into the Bight of Bonny, gave rise to the state’s name. In 1987, Akwa Ibom, which has 31 local government units and its headquarters in Uyo, was split off from Cross River State.
With an estimated 5.5 million people as of 2016, Akwa Ibom is the thirty-first most populated and fifteenth largest state out of the 36. Geographically, the state is divided between the Cross-Niger transition forests in the interior and the mangroves of Central Africa in the coastal extreme south. The Kwa Ibo River cuts the state in half before entering the Bight of Bonny, and the Imo and Cross rivers flow along the eastern and western borders of Akwa Ibom, respectively. The Stubb’s Creek Forest Reserve is a severely endangered wildlife reserve in the southeast of the state. It is home to declining populations of crocodile, putty-nosed monkey, red-capped mangabey, and Sclater’s guenon as well as possibly extinct populations of African leopard and Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee. The state’s coastline is also home to varied cetacean species, including killer whales, humpback whales, bottlenose dolphins, and pantropical spotted dolphins, as well as enormous fish populations.[Reference needed]
Golf at Meridien Akwa Ibom
Several ethnic groups have lived in the present-day Akwa Ibom State for hundreds of years, particularly the closely related Ibibio, Anaang, Oro, and Obolo peoples in the state’s northern, eastern, and western regions, respectively. What is now Akwa Ibom State was once divided into a number of city-states, including the Ibom Kingdom and Akwa Akpa, the latter of which became a British protectorate as part of the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884. The British actually took formal control of the region in the early 1900s before incorporating the protectorate (now known as the Niger Coast Protectorate) into the Southern Nigeria Protectorate, which later merged into British Nigeria. Following the merger, a large portion of present-day Akwa Ibom served as a focal point for political activism through the Ibibio State Union and anti-colonial resistance during the Women’s War.
The present-day region of Akwa Ibom was a part of the Eastern Region upon independence in 1960 until the region’s division in 1967, at which point it became a component of the South-Eastern State. Less than two months later, the former Eastern Region, which had an Igbo majority, attempted to secede as the state of Biafra. During the three-year Nigerian Civil War, the area that is now Akwa Ibom was fiercely contested before the invasion of Port Harcourt, and its residents were persecuted by Biafran forces because they were primarily non-Igbo. The South-Eastern State was reconstructed following the end of the war and the unification of Nigeria until 1976, when it was given the new name Cross River State. Eleven years later, the western portion of Cross River State was severed, becoming the new Akwa Ibom State.
The economy of Akwa Ibom State, which is the highest oil-producing state in the nation, is centered on the production of crude oil and natural gas, with oil-producing LGAs including Ibeno, Mbo, and Eastern Obolo. Agriculture is one of the state’s major minor businesses because it produces a lot of cocoyam, yam, and plantain crops, along with fishing and heli-culture. Due in large part to years of systematic corruption, Akwa Ibom has the seventeenth highest Human Development Index in the nation despite its substantial oil income.
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