Hon. Aniekan Umanah

Hon. Aniekan Umanah
Rep. Abak/Etim Ekpo /Ika Federal Constituency

Hon. Aniekan Umanah is a public relations/advertising specialist and the member representing Abak/Etim Ekpo /Ika Federal constituency of Akwa Ibom State. He was previously Commissioner for Information and Strategy between July 2008 and 2017. Umanah is an alumnus of the University of Cross River State (now University of Uyo), the University of Lagos, Cambridge University, UK, Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos and the Lagos Business School. Between 1992 – 2004, he worked in various capacities with Newswatch Communications, Lagos rising to Controller, Special Projects and Advertorial Business Development.

Since arriving the House of Representatives, Hon. Umanah has raised a number of bills and motions that benefit the state, including A bill for an Act to Establish a Federal College of Technology at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State to provide full-time courses in various specializations in the aviation industry and the need to investigate the failure of the Federal Government’s N3.4bn solar-powered grid project in the six geopolitical zones and the Federal Capital Territory.

Akwa Ibom Celebrates Hon Umana, an elder of the Qua Iboe Church and fellows of the Nigerian Institute of Management.