Tom Ikimi

Chief Tom Ikimi (born 10 April 1944) is a Nigerian politician and architect who served as minister of foreign affairs from 1995 to 1998. He was appointed chairman of ECOWAS Council of Ministers and ECOWAS Committee of Nine on Liberia (C-9) on 26 July 1996. He has also served as chairman of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) and was a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

== Early life and education ==

Ikimi was born in Kumba, Southern British Cameroons (modern-day Cameroon) to John Onile Ikimi and Victoria Isiemoa Ikimi, both from Igueben, Igueben Local Government Area, Edo State. He attended St. Joseph's College, Sasse, Buea, Southern Cameroons, from 1957 to 1961. He was a pioneer student of the Midwestern Polytechnic, Auchi, Midwestern Nigeria (now Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State), for his technical education from January 1966 to December 1967 (building and civil engineering), where he obtained an Ordinary National Diploma. He was a pioneer member of the students union, a keen sportsman and established the College Athletics Club.

His professional education in architecture was at the Ahmadu Bello University, Architectural School, Zaria, from 1968 to 1973...