Contact us
Start here — the right place depends on what your question is about, and sending it to the wrong one costs you time.
About one specific application
Your Local Government Council
Lodge a complaint from your dashboard. It reaches the Secretary of the Council holding your file and is copied to the Ministry, and must be answered within five working days.
Whether you are an indigene of a village
Your Village Head and your Council
The Portal records and enforces the process; it does not decide indigeneship. That remains with your Village Head and your Local Government Council, and the Ministry cannot overturn it.
An officer asked you for cash
The Council and the Ministry, together
No officer may collect cash at any stage. Report it from your dashboard — the report reaches the Secretary and the Ministry at the same time — or write to the Ministry directly using the address below.
Verification API access for an organisation
Ministry of Science and Digital Economy
Ministries, Councils, security agencies, banks, employers and institutions register with the Ministry to receive credentials.
Something on this site is broken
Digital Services Unit, MSDE
Tell us what you were doing, what you expected, and what happened instead. If you can, include your application reference.
Portal owner
Ministry of Science and Digital Economy
Digital Services Unit
Akwa Ibom State Government
Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
- Portal
- myorigin.akwaibomstate.gov.ng
Your Local Government Secretariat
For anything in person
Every one of the 31 Secretariats can complete an application with you at the desk, take your photograph, and hand you your printed certificate. You do not need an appointment.
Bring with you: your Village Head's signed letter, your NIN slip or card, and — if you are collecting — your reference number and an ID showing your NIN.
Data protection
Personal data collected through this Portal is processed for the sole purpose of considering and issuing a Certificate of Origin, and is handled in accordance with the Nigeria Data Protection Act. Officers may access only applications assigned to them or within their own Local Government Area, and every access is logged. Identity data obtained during verification is used to verify you and to print your certificate, and is not disclosed to any third party except as required by law. The public verification page and the Verification API disclose only the minimum needed to confirm that a certificate is genuine.