GOVERNOR AKPABIO CONFERRED WITH HONOURARY FELLOW AWARD

The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, was  over the weekend  conferred with the Honourary Fellow Award of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) in Abuja. The Governor who was represented by his deputy, Mr Nsima Ekere, said even as he was aware of the achievements of his other colleagues across the country, the infrastructural development in Akwa Ibom State in the last five years has been phenomenal and unprecedented.

He cited the achievement of the administration to include free and compulsory education; construction of 205 roads covering over 1,000 kilometres; building of five brand new General Hospitals and a soon-to-be completed International Specialist Hospital; a brand new airport with the longest run way in the country among many other achievements.

Other Governors who were also conferred with the honourary fellowship included the Governors of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi; Lagos- Mr Babatunde Fashola; Niger- Alhaji Babangida Aliyu; and their Benue counterpart- Hon Gabriel Suswan.

Well deserved.