Career
Akpan wears size 7½ or small 8 boot and loves jersey number 18. On 3 August 2008 left Bayelsa United F.C. and move on loan to Heartland F.C., returning in September to Bayelsa. He rejoined Heartland ahead of the 2010-2011 season after Bayelsa was relegated.
He signed for Hoang Anh Gia Lai Club in Vietnam on a one-year contract in October 2011.
He re-signed with Bayelsa ahead of the 2015 Nigeria season. After three games he joined Abia Warriors on loan for the rest of the season.
In 2001, he was in the Nigerian U-17 squad at the 2001 Fédération internationale de football association U-17 World Championship that took place in Trinidad & Tobago which lost in the final game to earn a well-deserved silver medal, earning Akpan the best goalkeeper award of the tournament.