Onna is known for farming, pottery and fishing, and for its culture, traditions and local food.
Onna Local Government Area is in the south-central part of Akwa Ibom State. It was created on 3 May 1989, during the administration of General Ibrahim Babangida. It covers about 47.51 square kilometres. It shares boundaries with Eket, Ibeno, Eastern Obolo, Mkpat Enin and Etinan. The headquarters is at Abat, where the council secretariat is.
I'm proud of what is being built in Onna LGA: 19 projects recorded, 5 finished.
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26 projects in the state summary. 19 are documented one by one here so far.
The name ONNA is made from the names of its three original clans: Oniong, Nung Ndem and Awa. The former Awa clan had eleven autonomous communities. It was later divided into Asuna Nung Oku clan, with six villages, and Awa Afaha clan, with five villages. Onna now has four clans and 42 villages. Edidem Raymond Timothy Inyang is the Paramount Ruler.
People in Onna mainly farm, make pottery and fish. The area has clay, fisheries, limestone, oil palm, crude oil and natural gas. Edereobo Market is the main market. It serves residents, farmers, traders and visitors from nearby communities.
Onna has produced many people known in public service, academia, business and politics. They include Edidem Uyioata Akpabio, the first Oku Ibom Ibibio, and Dr. Clement Nyong Isong, who served as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and as the first civilian Governor of the old Cross River State. Others are Obong Ufot Ekaette, the first civilian Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, and Mr. Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, Governor of Akwa Ibom State from 2015 to 2023.
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Roads and bridges · Ikot Akata, Ikot Akpa Ekop and Ntan Ide...
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Roads and bridges · Awa, Onna
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Roads and bridges · Ndon Eyo to Ikot Akpatek
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Roads and bridges · Ikwe to Odio, Eket and Onna
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Roads and bridges · Ukpana, Akpabom and Ikwe
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Roads and bridges · Atiamkpat
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Roads and bridges · Ikot Obio Eket to Ikot Mbong
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Grants, welfare and support, kept apart from the projects that were built.
A model health centre at Afaha Ikot Nkan is under construction and is designed to bring primary health care closer to residents. A model primary school is recorded at Ikot Abasi Oniong. Fourteen Compassionate Homes are recorded for vulnerable residents, and a teaching hospital at Awa is proposed.
Grants of N122,100,000 were paid to farmers, traders and two MSME owners, and 52 people received equipment, 2 received mini buses and 1 received a car. The Ndon Eyo-Ikot Akpatek road is expected to give riverine communities better access to the sea and to markets.
There are nine road projects, including 14.8 kilometres of internal roads in Awa. The Ndon Eyo-Ikot Akpatek and Ikwe-Odio roads are designed to link communities with the council secretariat at Abat and neighbouring areas. There are also flood control works at the secretariat.
How many of the 19 projects on this page back each goal.
Governor Umo Eno says he has an affinity with Onna people and that the state will keep working together with them to bring development to Onna.
The Onna council chairman, Mr Kufre Umoren, calls Onna a practical example of Akwa Ibom United.
A local statement says the 7.64km Ndon Eyo-Ikot Akpatek Road includes two bridges.
Local statements say the contract for the Ndon Eyo-Ikot Akpatek Road was re-awarded and that the road is now under construction.
Speakers link the Ndon Eyo-Ikot Akpatek Road with the Ikwe to Odio road and say the route passes the council secretariat at Abat.
A local leader says the Ndon Eyo-Ikot Akpatek Road will improve quality of life once it is finished.
A local leader says the Ndon Eyo-Ikot Akpatek route would give Onna direct access to the ocean and increase commerce.
Speakers say the contract for the Ikwe-Odio Road was re-awarded.
A local statement says the Ikwe-Odio Road will improve access to the council secretariat at Abat and the communities around it.
A speaker notes that the site of the model health centre at Afaha Ikot Nkan is close to the boundary with Etinan and not far from Mkpat Enin.
A local leader says the area of three or more villages around Ikot Abasi Oniong had no primary school, so the model primary school is the only one there.
Some speakers describe the model primary school at Ikot Abasi Oniong as still under construction.
Several speakers refer to the official residence of the Onna Local Government Chairman as the chairman's lodge.
Some of the 14 ARISE Compassionate Homes in Onna are described as complete.
The council chairman says one ward has two of the ARISE Compassionate Homes and that the Governor came in person to commission one.
A speaker describes an ARISE Compassionate Home under construction in his ward as a four-bedroom flat with a solar-powered borehole and N500,000 cash support.
The paramount ruler says the Akwa Ibom State University Teaching Hospital is proposed for Awa and that he has seen the signboard for the project.
A speaker says residents went to the Local Government to receive seedlings and agricultural grants, and that they also received oil palm seedlings.
A speaker says the oil palm seedlings will boost economic activity and that people will begin to earn from them when they yield in the next three years.
A church leader says that when small businesses are supported the community's economy grows stronger.
A transporter and a village head in Onna say good roads cut travel time and help trade.
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