Winners In Christmas Unplugged 2.0 Smile Home With N155m

    … As Gov Umo Eno Declares All 31 LGAs Winners
UYO
In a spontaneous pleasant surprise, winners in the 2024 Christmas Unplugged Season 2.0, Sights and Sounds of Local Government Areas competition have smiled home with an unexpected staggering winning prize of N155 million.
  The winners, as declared by the Akwa Ibom governor, Pastor Umo Eno, PhD, are the entire 31 local government areas that participated effectively and committed towards clinching the prizes hitherto lined-up for the top three local government areas in the Sights and Sounds segment of the Christmas Unplugged Season 2.0.
This winning prize presentation brings officially to an end the 32 days 2024 Christmas Unplugged Season 2.0 celebration, which  lasted from December 01, 2024  to January 01, 2025, featuring a showcase of the rich cultural heritage and tourism potentials of all the 31 local government areas of Akwa Ibom.
Announcing the winning prize sum of N155 million, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Mrs. Grace Akpan, said the surprise declaration of all the 31 local government areas of the State as winners in the Christmas Unplugged Season 2.0, was a demonstration of the large heart, benevolence and the all inclusive governance disposition of Governor Umo Eno, PhD.
The Tourism permanent secretary disclosed that with the whopping prize sum, each of the 31 local government areas will be carting home the sum of N5 million as reward for participating effectively in the Local Governments’ Sights and Sounds competition.
Akpan, who was speaking at the Evening of Grants and Empowerment organised by the State government at the Amphitheatre, Unity Park in Uyo, expressed deep gratitude to Governor Eno for his show of love and magnanimity towards the people of Akwa Ibom, since assumption of office.
  The permanent secretary had earlier in her presentation explained the modalities involved in the selection of winners in the Christmas Unplugged Season 2.0 where she enlisted the A-List team put together to carry out the process and enumerated the criteria used in selecting the winners in the Christmas Unplugged contest to include: Organization and Coordination; Contingent Appearance and Number of  Cultural troupes, Local Cuisines on Display, Major Economic and Cultural activities showcased and functional use of local dialects in presentation.
She said the Christmas Unplugged programme is part of measures enunciated in the ARISE Agenda of Governor Umo Eno geared towards the development of entrepreneurship and tourism in the State.
The evening, which witnessed presentation of different categories of grants to different groups, was spiced with performances by Flavour, Misto Xto, young professionals, among others.
The evening was graced by the State governor, Pastor Umo Eno, PhD, the coordinator of the Office of the First Lady, Lady Helen Obareki, the political class as well as d’creme of Akwa Ibom society.