Chief Edet Amana is an accomplished professional, an astute businessman, distinguished academic and intellectual, humanitarian and philanthropist, urbane and cosmopolitan in outlook, compassionate, and morally anchored in all his doings. 

Chief Amana had his secondary school education at the Methodist College Uzuakoli and the higher school certificate at the King’s College, Lagos with brilliant records.  He graduated B.Sc. Engineering Degree First Class Honors (top of the First Class Honors list) from Imperial College of the University of London (1963), and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the same University (1966).  Driven by the desire to always be the best, Chief Amana carried his commitment to excellence into the practice of his engineering profession earning the recognition and commendation of his colleagues through the award of the Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE).

Chief Aman’s competence as manager of human and material resources is demonstrated in his ability to single-handedly nurture his small Amana Consulting Engineers started in 1972 into the giant conglomerate, the Amana Group of Companies with business connections in South Africa, Europe, USA, South-East Asia, Japan and Latin America.  He had been Chairman of the Boards of many Federal and State Parastatals and Agencies.  He has been one of the highly recognized motivators and benefactors of several local communities in Nigeria in the vast rural hinterland in his quest for true development, and has awarded over 2000 scholarships to deserving students in tertiary institutions.  His establishment of academic prizes and endowment of Chairs in several institution of learning testify to his firm belief in qualitative education in Nigeria.

Chief Amana’s political consciousness was forged in the atmosphere of the great hopes and expectations of the struggle for national independence and his vision of Nigeria is that of a country whose vast human and material resources are transformed by deliberate acts of political and social engineering into concrete realities that could benefit the vast majority of Nigerians.

Chief Amana has traveled to many parts of the world.  He is married with children.