Uyo, is one of the youngest state capitals in Nigeria but it has recorded a lot of first in the country feats eg first E-library, first pipe jacked drainage, first Maintenance repair and overhaul(MRO) facility for aircraft, first state to complete its own state funded airport, first state to fund the construction of 4 and counting major flyovers within one administration, first state government to construct 1300 km and counting of quality roads utilizing renowned construction firms such as Julius berger within one administration and many more.

The focus today will be to showcase the holiday spirit in the state of Akwa Ibom, enjoy the lights in pictures if you couldn't make it to the state in person.

The holiday was kicked off with the internationally recognized and guiness book of record breaking 9,999 christmas carol singing event at the Uyo Sports Stadium, in attendance were Gospel Artist Israel Houghton from USA, Lionel Peterson South Africa, And a host of other artist. it was a great event.

happy new year form Akwa Ibom, a state that's setting the pace for what Nigeria could be, and making all nigerians proud.

pictures courtesy of rhodies world

all pictures courtesy of rhodies world

It was really wonderful but too artificial and quite detached from the masses. Calabar had all the fun of Xmas

pictures courtesy of rhodies world

pictures courtesy of rhodies world.com

Beautiful i must say.
Akwa ibom must be swimming in money.

pictures courtesy of rhodiesworld.com

Zona.com:
Beautiful i must say.
Akwa ibom must be swimming in money.

Akwa Ibom's budget is nearly N500bn. If you include the supplementary budgets, the total figure rises to N700bn.

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CFCfan:

Akwa Ibom's budget is nearly N500bn. If you include the supplementary budgets, the total figure rises to N700bn.

where did you pull your bogus figure from?

If you were in Akwa ibom for the holiday and you did take some pictures please share your memory/pic with us by uploading it on this thread. thanks

Those Akwa Ibom roads make me want to put my foot down hard on the accelerator pedal and drive my head off.

ujoinme:
where did you pull your bogus figure from?

I admit I got the N700bn wrong. However, AKS total budget for last year was N540bn according to the link below:
http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/akwa-ibom-sends-n70bn-supplementary-budget-assembly

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ba7man: Those Akwa Ibom roads make me want to put my foot down hard on the accelerator pedal and drive my head off.

I tell you. The Governor has done a GREAT job on infrastructure in general.
The new 20th anniversary hospital will be a splendid health center!

Quite beautiful.

Looks ok, just needs at least 6 inches of snow to make it a Christmas wonderland.

Ikot ekpene road by Ikpa road Uyo @ christmas 2013

At the uyo sports stadium for the dec 2013 9,999 carol singing event pictures courtesy of rhodies world .com

for those who may want to watch the guiness book of record breaking largest gathering of carol singers event in Uyo here is a youtube video for the event in case uy missed it. enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAldB4CFkAo

Nice, oil money is good.

He has done well, in Uyo you wash your car once in a week "good & clean roads"

permit me to post some pictures of the 9,999 carol singing event. Picture 1 and 2 Isreal Houghton,USA and Lionel Peterson,South Africa guest artist at the event.
picture 3 and 4 bishop Oyedepo who delivered the sermon at the event this year and rev. Jesse Jackson a civil right activist from USA. at the event

all pictures courtesy of rhodies world.com

When the streets are Empty people have all gone to Calabar. He should be providing transport to & from Calabar free!

Uyo is beautifully beautiful. Apart from the carol ish, It's usually dull at festive periods. I wonder if calabar kinda carnival would succeed here ?

9,999 carol singers event pictures from rhodiesworld.com

picture #4 former military administrators of akwa Ibom State at the event @ the left Gov. joseph Adewusi, middle Gov. John Ebiye and right Gov.yakubu Bako

NnamdiN: Uyo is beautifully beautiful. Apart from the carol ish, It's usually dull at festive periods. I wonder if calabar kinda carnival would succeed here ?

Lol, that will simply make a mess of the carnival already established in calabar. The two cities are too close.

Where in the world is AGBAMETA?

DankemzI:

To build that hospital has taken more than fives and counting. In terms of infrastructure he has done NOTHING. Akwa Ibom youths are hungry we need industrilization which is only possible tru Ibaka port. Apart from civil service & keke riding tell me another that employs youth. Plaza that was designed by Arch. Victor Attah he turned it to ghost zone.

you think that building a 290 bed hospital complete with a nursing and allied health training institute na beans? you should learn to appreciate the scope of work we are talking of here.

This is not another 50 bed ill equipped hospital that litters nigeria. we are talking of a worldclass hospital here designed and conceptualized by http://www.rrp-international.com/ those kinds of building takes time.

attached is the model of the kind of hospital that we are refering to here. The hospital is bigger than the national hospital in Abuja. gets your facts straight before you spew trash.

and for you info the hospital has already been roofed and will be commisioned this year. for update on the level of construction of the hospital visit this link https://www.nairaland.com/1256550/uyo-city-peace-beauty-pictures/39

As for people being hungry, since when was it the duty of govt to feed its citizens? Its not the job of govt to build industries but to create an enabling environment for them to thrive on this regards Akpabio is doing a good Job.

Industrialization is a process it doesn't happen overnight it takes timing and planning, the state has through PPP built a state of the arts gas processing plant that is currently supplying gas to the ibom power plant and will also supply to the NIPP at odukpani with the capacity to provide gas to any industry that sets up in the state and has completed the 191MW power plant at ikot abasi and has provided 1300km of solid road network across the state. these were non existent in Akwa Ibom 6yrs ago. If you dont know, those are the backbone to industrialization of any region.
The state govt is doing great. as per the ibaka seaport that oncourse.

I would appreciate if you can point to any hospital in Nigeria that is near the scope of hospital that akpabio is building! When YOU SAY Akpabio has done NOTHING on infrastructure i doubt if you know what that word means.

ketoprofen: Where in the world is AGBAMETA?

checked into a mental facility