Eket is the second biggest city in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The name likewise alludes to the indigenous ethnic gathering of the locale and to their dialect. The city itself, a modern city that as of late has turned into a conurbation immersing separate towns, has a populace of more than 200,000, while whole urban zone, which covers Okon, Nsit Ubium, Afaha Eket and Esit Eket, has a consolidated populace of 364,489, the second biggest urban populace in Akwa Ibom state.
An oil refinery is as of now under development in the edges of the city along the Oron street. The city has a stadium complex, an airstrip and also different bases of significance. It additionally has various lodgings, for example, Villa Marina, Royalty Hotels, Crystal Palace Hotel, Roseboom Hotels, Eden Hotel and others.
Eket because of its modern nature is a generally costly city. The administration has arrangements of updating the city by the procurement of further significant streets in the city and the development of lodging homes.
In the 1990s, western earthy people were worried over the exercises of oil abuse in and around Eket, for example, Shell and Mobil. The region is currently recently "oil-rich" and Eket is the flourishing center point of another oil and gas business, with more than 250 organizations giving bolster administrations, for example, providing food, flights, and trades. In any case, this achievement has brought on issues, particularly a hesitance by neighborhood young fellows to take part in conventional work, for example, angling. There are vocal nearby battles to build the rate of oil income that is given to the neighborhood group. Eket as an ethnic gathering includes Eket, Esit Eket, Ibeno and Onna L.G.As
The Eket are an individuals who live in this district. They are a sub-gathering of the Ibibio individuals. Eket is likewise the name of the primary sub-dialect that they talk, a Benue–Congo dialect. Both dialects are comparative, yet adequately unmistakable to give away the exact region the speaker begins from. The Eket have a type of station or class society, with the "Amama" being the most astounding standing, and these are outstanding for undertaking conventional potlach-like dining experiences in which the poorer individuals are sustained as a group. Notwithstanding the Amama, gatherings of "Ekpo Ndem Isong" class guideline individual towns and towns, and their will is upheld by the "Ikan" class (customary covered police) to which passage is by legitimacy as opposed to conception.
The nearby religion is one of precursor love, love of Ala the "earth god", and regular rural celebrations. Water is copious in the Niger delta, and the vegetation sumptuous. In any case, over-cultivating and poor cultivating practices are exhausting soil supplements on numerous homesteads and plots.
Well known surnames incorporate Ukpong Etteh[1] (really meaning father),[2] Udofia, Ukoetuk, Uku, Abia and Essien. Much the same as the rest of West Africa, the family name regularly is a pointer of which particular locale one is from
Well known Contributors To Development Of Eket[edit]
Late.Rt.Hon Moses U.M.Ukpong Senator Helen Esuene Hon. Jack Udo
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