This study examined the extent creativity and emotional intelligence competency-based management predicts academic staff job performance in public universities in Akwa Ibom and Rivers States of Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted the correlational survey design, using a sample of 520 universities’ administrators drawn through total sampling technique from the population of 520 university administrators of the five public universities in both Akwa Ibom and Rivers States. The instruments for data collection were: Creativity and Emotional Intelligence Competency-Based Management Scale (CECBMS) and Academic Staff Job Performance (ASJPS) which were validated by experts with reliability coefficients of 0.83 and 0.96 respectively, determined through Cronbach’s Alpha Statistics. All research questions were answered with simple regression, while all the hypotheses were tested with t-test associated with simple regression at 0.05 level of significance with (SPSS version 22). The findings of the study revealed that creativity and emotional intelligence competency-based management predicted academic staff job performance in public universities in Akwa Ibom and Rivers State of Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended that, the authority of the public universities should assign jobs to the academic staff that will stir up the creative competency in academic staff and organize training that will build the capacity of academic staff on emotional intelligence to enhance the job performance of the academic staff of the public universities.