The Government of Pastor Umo Eno in Akwa Ibom State says unemployment has reduced in the state. What is the level of unemployment in Akwa Ibom State as at December 2025.
Executive summary
There is no single, authoritative unemployment figure for Akwa Ibom State as of December 2025 in the set of documents provided; available sources show large discrepancies across years and actors and point to continuing high joblessness rather than a clear decline. State government initiatives under Governor Umo Eno since 2024 aim to reduce youth unemployment, but the supplied reporting does not contain an official December 2025 unemployment rate that can be cited with confidence [1] [2].
1. The core question and the available evidence: no published December 2025 number
The user asks for the unemployment level in Akwa Ibom State as at December 2025; the documents supplied include national series, past state figures and policy announcements, but none contain an explicit, verifiable unemployment percentage or count for Akwa Ibom dated December 2025, so a precise figure cannot be sourced from this corpus [3] Nigerian_Labour_Force_Survey_Report.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[4] [2].
2. Snapshot of past and recent data points that illustrate the variation
Historical and recent sources demonstrate wide variation: national unemployment measures differ by dataset (TradingEconomics reports Nigeria’s unemployment at 4.9% in Q4 2024, a national series that does not yield state breakdowns in the snippet provided) while state-level and news analyses over the last five years have placed Akwa Ibom among Nigeria’s worst-affected states with much higher rates reported previously [3] [5] [6]. State-level claims have been contested: in 2022 Akwa Ibom officials disputed an NBS-derived 51% figure and asserted the true rate was about 29% [7].
3. Government claims and programmes under Governor Umo Eno (context, not a numeric validation)
Governor Umo Eno’s administration launched the Arise Youth Employment Portal and related programmes in October 2024 as a principal instrument to tackle youth unemployment, and announced other hires and empowerment schemes intended to reduce joblessness—actions that signal a policy focus but do not by themselves quantify the December 2025 unemployment rate [1] [8] [9].
4. Indicators suggesting unemployment remained a major problem into 2025
Contemporary reporting from 2025 indicates high labour-market pressure persisted: an August 2025 story reported 15,000 applicants for 3,000 civil service openings and explicitly noted that “the unemployment rate in Akwa Ibom remains high,” which functions as an empirical signal of elevated job-seeking intensity even if it does not give a state unemployment percentage for December 2025 [2].
5. Why published state unemployment numbers diverge and what that means for December 2025
Divergent figures arise from differing methodologies, timeframes and institutional agendas: national statistical series, independent data consultants and state governments have used different surveys and definitions, producing results ranging from single-digit national rates to state-level claims in the tens of percent, and even contested five‑dozen percent estimates from earlier NBS releases [3] [7] [5]. Given those methodological conflicts and the absence of a December 2025 release in the supplied sources, it is not possible to assert a definitive unemployment rate for Akwa Ibom as at that date from this evidence set.
6. Balanced conclusion and what is needed to answer decisively
The supplied reporting documents indicate that Akwa Ibom has been portrayed repeatedly as a state with high unemployment and that Governor Umo Eno’s government has prioritized employment initiatives, but there is no verifiable unemployment rate for December 2025 in these sources; therefore the only defensible position is that the precise level for that month cannot be confirmed here. To answer decisively would require either a state- or national-statistics office release covering Q4/December 2025 with state breakdowns, or a credible, dated labour‑force survey for Akwa Ibom that is explicitly timestamped to December 2025 [4] [3] [2].