Your Certificate of Origin, without the queue.
Apply on your phone. No trip to the Secretariat, and you can see exactly where your file is at every step.
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His Excellency, Pastor Umo Eno
Governor of Akwa Ibom State
Before you start
Four things to have ready
Get these together first and the whole application takes about ten minutes. You can save what you have done and come back to it.
A signed letter from your Village Head
It must show your name, your village and your Local Government Area, and carry the Village Head's signature and date — and the stamp or seal where there is one.
Your NIN
Your National Identification Number, and your NIN slip or card to upload. Your name must be spelt exactly as it is on your National Identity record.
A clear photograph of your face
Taken on your phone in good light, looking straight at the camera. It is matched against your National Identity record automatically.
A phone number or an email address
Either one is enough. If you have no email address, every message comes to you by SMS instead.
Applying for a child, or for someone who cannot apply? You will also need their birth certificate showing the parent's name.
How that worksThe process
Five steps, and you get your certificate
No step can be skipped and no officer can jump the order. You get an email and an SMS each time your file moves.
- 1
Fill in the form
Your details, your village and Local Government Area, and your documents. You can stop and finish later.
- 2
We confirm it is you
The State service checks your NIN and matches your photograph. This happens in under a minute.
- 3
Pay the fee
Through AkwaRemit only. No officer will ever ask you for cash.
- 4
Your Council decides
A Clerical Officer checks your documents, the Chairman approves, and the certificate is signed.
- 5
Collect your certificate
The electronic copy reaches you the moment it is signed. Collect the printed copy at your Secretariat.
What it costs
Check the fee before you begin
The fee is set by each Local Government Council, so it is not the same everywhere. Choose yours and see exactly what you will pay — no officer can change it, and nothing is added later.
See all 31 CouncilsPaid through AkwaRemit into the State Treasury Single Account. All fees are non-refundable. Checking a certificate is always free.
No phone? No data? No problem.
Walk into your Local Government Secretariat and a Clerical Officer will complete the application on the computer with you, while you sit there. It is the same application, checked the same way, in the same time. You are still the applicant and the certificate is issued in your name.
What happens at the deskYour photo is taken there
On the camera at the desk, in front of you.
Everything is read back
The officer reads your details aloud before submitting.
You sign a short slip
Confirming the details are correct and you asked for this.
A different officer checks it
The one who typed it can never be the one who approves it.
You pay at the counter
Through the AkwaRemit channel — never cash to an officer.
You leave with a slip
Printed, with your reference number on it.
What this service guarantees you
No officer takes cash
Every naira is paid through AkwaRemit into the State Treasury Single Account. If anyone asks you for money by hand, report it from your dashboard.
Anyone can check it, free
Every certificate carries a QR code. An employer, a bank or a school can confirm it is genuine in seconds, at no charge, without an account.
It never expires
A Certificate of Origin is issued once and is valid for the rest of your life. There is nothing to renew, ever.
You can see where it is
You watch your file move from step to step, and you know which officer holds it, from the moment you submit until you collect.
For anyone checking one
Been handed a certificate? Check it in seconds.
Employers, banks, schools and agencies can confirm any certificate free of charge — scan the QR code, or type the number. Organisations checking in volume can use the Verification API from their own systems.
Verify a certificate
Genuine certificate
AKS/CoO/UYO/2026/000123
Uyo Local Government Council · Issued 14 March 2026
An illustration, not a live certificate.
Questions people ask
Still not sure? The help centre answers every step in plain English.
Open the help centreReady when you are.
Start now and finish later if you need to — nothing you have typed is lost.