Exclusive: What people don't know or see in the Map....

Akwa Ibom State houses 38 Islands that are very still untapped or developed making the future of tourism more brighter for the state than ever...
Do you know that Ibeno L.G.A has 25 communities and all 22 are Island settlements that is not even much captured in the map..

Others are Mbo L.G.A with 7 Island communities while Eastern Obolo L.G.A has 9 island communities ..
Thus making Akwa Abasi Ibom state the only state with 38 island settlements in Nigeria.

Akwa Ibom currently has the longest seaband or coastal line in west Africa making it a tourism heaven just like the river Nile in Egypt....with a whopping 2410 km2 coastal line, ibeno alone has 1200km2 while others is shared among Mbo, Easyern Obolo, Ikot Abasi etc

Let talk briefly about Ibeno L.G.A, Ibeno is bordering at the east flank by Mbo LGA, at the west flank by Eastern Obolo by north by Eket and by the south by the Atlantic Ocean.
Ibeno people are the extracted people from Andoni in River state & Eastern Obolo people inwhich they share the same culture and traditions with Andoni people of river state...
Bonny Island became popular becos of industrial present in that island ... leaving the 38 island settlement in Akwa Ibom state unknown and untapped ...

When I went on a tour to those islands in Ibeno..
Shockingly they were an island you travel for 1 full day from the jetty in Iwou-Achang in Ibeno to Utana obulop island.
This island took us 23hours with a speed flying boat engine fitted with two 75 horsepower engines to be able to get to that Island of Utana Obolop Island.

The interesting part was I saw huge population of people and majority were people from other countries like Satomi and Principe, Gabon , Togo and even people from Edo state and I was amazed about the untapped island .
Shocking they was no federal and state governments present in those islands ... No nigerians schools, hospital, police stations etc meaning the only thing that links that island to Akwa Ibom state and Nigeria is that the chiefs in this islands are from Ibeno period.
Is saddened how this guys are abandoned by both the state and federal government letting them to live and do thier business alone with steady international travels from one countries to the other without visa or etc.
Akwa Ibom state might not be big in size in the Nigeria map but the state is deep in realiality.

This island house up to 80 thousand inhabitants of various countries ... Jesus my lord I felt like crying while writing this piece. The primary occupation there is fishing and once in a while some foreign fishing companies and NGOs drop food & medical aids in the island in exchange of sea food....
If this Islands are well tapped it will make Akwa Ibom look like Miami of USA, or the Bahamas.

Please I used this opportunity to ask all well meaning Nigerians to go and invest and our journalist not to only covers cities and politics but go inside this islands and bring them to limelight.....
Am just so angry I won't be surprised we losing some of these islands in the future to foreign Governments like we did to bakassi..
Ibeno is gotten from the word Obolo which means white sand beach.
Akwa Ibom alone houses 80 thousand Ghanaian living in both Ibeno and Mbo L.G.A. in short there is a place in Iwouachang in Ibeno called Ghana town.

Nigerians need to know this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibeno_Beach

You can find the list of all Ibeno island and communities in the link below
https://worldpostalcode.com/nigeria/akwa-ibom/ibeno/ibeno-clan.

More NGOs visit Ibeno Islands

Hunchogee where are the pics of the 38 islands?

Wow,never knew aboutit..akwa ibom is beautiful..if only this nation is useful,why traveling to Miami while we have our own African Miami here..just tourism only will boost the state revenue.

More pix of the untapped islands in Akwa Ibom state

More pix Ghanaian boats everywhere in these island

Akwa Ibom Island communities culture expression

I keep asking why is only two of this Ibeno islands shown in Nigeria map and some maps don't even show any of these island or are there too small not to be shown .

I leave it to you guys to be the judge.

Find attached 2 different Nigeria map with two different views

Students and some tourists do visit these hidden islands

I love Akwa Ibom and I hope to visit there someday

This akwa ibom state is too blessed..

I wish akwa ibom and maybe cross river can form a country together. That will be among world most finest country with high GDP per capital, low poverty rate and high literacy rate.

Fish farming at it greatest in this islands

More on this Akwa Ibom Untapped Island settlements

Lalastclala, seun and mynd44 carry am go front page sir

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Life in these islands

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Beautiful and untapped islands site no inhabitants in some

Some with already natural beauty

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Lalastclala, seun abeg carry am go front page oo

All I can say is Wow!

You guys can make it work like Banana and Victoria Island.

Well, it's Economic and developments that will make that happen.

You guys are blessed with Waters

Poloyanabo2:
Hunchogee where are the pics of the 38 islands?

You can find some below sir...Is not easy to do a journalist job when you are not one ok

And you can do this research yourself by visiting this places ok

You guys don't know what you have

Akwaibom and Calabar should be a tourist destination.

mystery22:
Wow,never knew aboutit..akwa ibom is beautiful..if only this nation is useful,why traveling to Miami while we have our own African Miami here..just tourism only will boost the state revenue.

My brother is bad that we don't tour our locality to know what is abound...though am from this area both I never knew we had all this, honestly so we need not wait for government honestly

Nna u mix pictures o. Akwa Ibom ayaiya.

Still looking for the beauty....


OK I have seen it

38 islands and 3 different pictures of same white folks on the same beach. Didn't know islands and and 1 beach mean the same thing.

viver1:
Nna u mix pictures o. Akwa Ibom ayaiya.

My brother the truth is is not easy to go around to get pix especially if your not a journalist meanwhile you can press any picture you feel I mixed for 5seconds and it will take you to the source ok

seborrhic:
38 islands and 3 different pictures of same white folks on the same beach.
Didn't know islands and and 1 beach mean the same thing.

I don't need to advice you to read in between lines but you can visit Ibeno community ok

Shouldn’t you start a Akwa-Ibom development thread?

XANDERBOY85:
Shouldn’t you start a Akwa-Ibom development thread?

Sir it will be nice but you can assist too

Binikingdowm:
This akwa ibom state is too blessed..

I wish akwa ibom and maybe cross river can form a country together. That will be among world most finest country with high GDP per capital, low poverty rate and high literacy rate.

True talk bro