Ikot Udo Abia is a village in ward four of the Etinan local government area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
[5] Ikot Udo Abia lies in the area of Africa which was affected by the Atlantic slave trade of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
During this brief period, the continental tropical air mass, northeasterly winds and an associated dry and dusty harmattan haze affects the village.
However, as a result of proximity to the ocean, the harmattan dust haze, is relatively mild; it may only last for a few weeks between December and January.
There is also a health centre,[8] a market, a sub post office, a youth center, and a mini-water project that was constructed by the government of Obong Akpan Isemin.
They are made with seafoods, such as crayfish, shellfish (periwinkles for example) or dried fish, palm oil, palm fruits, meat from cow skin, chicken or goat, local spices and leaves such as afang (Gnetum africanum), pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis), water leaf (Talinum fruticosum), editan, Ntrong, etighi (okra) and atama.
Vegetables crops are also farmed, for example, fluted pumpkin, bitter leaf, waterleaf, okro, pepper and afang (Gnetum africanum), atama, editan (an orange cultivar[12]), ntron, uyayak, mmeme, and utazi.