AKWA IBOM

Akwa Ibom State is a state in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered on the east by Cross River State, on the west by Rivers State and Abia State, and on the south by the Atlantic Ocean. The state takes its name from the Kwa Ibo River, which bisects the state before flowing into the Bight of Bonny.Akwa Ibom was splitted from Cross River State in 1987 with her capital Uyo and with 31 local government areas. Of the 36 states, AkwaIbom is the 30th largest in area and fifteenth most populous with an estimated population of approximately 5.5 million as of 2016. Geographically, the state is divided between the Central African mangroves in the coastal far south and the Cross–Niger transition forests in the rest of the state. In the southeast corner of the state is the Stubbs’s Creek Forest Reserve, a heavily threatened wildlife reserve that contains declining crocodile, putty-nosed monkey, along with potentially extirpated populations of African leopard and Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee. Offshore, the state is also biodiverse as there are large fish populations along with various cetacean species including bottlenose dolphins, pan tropical spotted dolphins, humpback whales, and killer whales.