Chief Tom Ikimi in Kumba-Southern,British Cameroons to John Onile Ikimi and Victoria Isiemoa Ikimi,both from Igueben. He is married,with three sons and a daughter. He is a Roman Catholic. He was appointed Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995. He has been chairman of ECOWAS council of ministers and ECOWAS committee of Nine on Liberia(C-9) from 26 July 1996.
Mohamed Ibn Chambas is a Ghanaian lawyer,diplomat,politician and academic who has served as an international civil servant since 2006. He last served as the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel,and the former head of UNOWAS from April 2014 to April 2021. Previously,he served as the UN SRSG and Head of the Joint UN-AU Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (2012-2014),the Secretary-General of the African,Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (2010-2012) and the president of the Economic Community of West African States.
Rilwanu Lukman was a Nigerian engineer who held several ministerial positions in the Nigerian Federal government before becoming Secretary General of OPEC from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2000. He died on 21 July 2014. On 18 December 2008,Lukman was appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources by Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua,holding office until March 2010.
Edmund Maduabebe Daukoru is a former Nigerian Minister of State for Energy and was Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2006. He became the Amayanabo,or traditional ruler,of Nembe Kingdom in 2008. Also Chairman of South South Monarchs forum in the PGEJ regime.
Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah is the former deputy prime minister of Qatar and the head of the Emir's court. From September 1992 to January 2011,Attiyah was Qatar's minister of energy and industry.
Diezani K. Alison-Madueke is a Nigerian politician and the first female President of OPEC.
Abonnema,originally known as Nyemoni,is a large town in the Kalabari Kingdom that was founded in 1882. Its territory was discovered by an expedition of four independent chieftaincy houses from the Kalabari city-state.
Shettima Ali Monguno,CFR was a Nigerian educationalist and politician,born in 1926 in Monguno-Borno state. He attended Monguno Primary School,Teacher's College Bauchi and Katsina,College of Arts,Science and Technology,Zaria,Moray House College of Education and the University of Edinburgh.
Abdullahi Balarabe Salame is a Nigerian politician born on in Gwadabawa Local government of Sokoto. He is a member of parliament for Gwadabawa and Illela constituency,at Federal House of Representatives under a platform of All Progressive Congress (APC) and is a chairman house committee on poverty alleviation. He was a speaker of Sokoto State house of assembly from 2007 to 2011 who represented Gwadabawa East,and also served as acting governor of the state from 11 April to 28 May 2008.
Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas was a Nigerian politician who was appointed Minister of Youth,Sports and Culture in 1989,then Minister of Aviation in General Ibrahim Babangida's cabinet. In 1999,he was appointed Minister of Labour and Productivity,and in 2000,Minister of Tourism in the Olusegun Obasanjo cabinet,leaving office in January 2001.
Jibril Muhammad Aminu is a Nigerian professor of cardiology and politician. He was Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States from 1999 to 2003 and served as the senator representing Adamawa Central senatorial district from 2003 to 2011. He is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Adeleke Olorunnimbe Mamora;born 16 February 1953) is a Nigerian medical doctor and politician who served as the minister of Science and Technology from 2022 to 2023. He previously served has the minister of State for Health from 2019 to 2022. He served as the senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District from 2003 to 2011,and as speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly from 1999 to 2003. He is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Nimi Barigha-Amange is a former Senator for the Bayelsa East constituency of Bayelsa State,Nigeria. He took office on 29 May 2007 serving until 29 May 2011. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
Effiong Dickson Bob from Ikot Ekwere,Ubium in Akwa Ibom State is the Pro Chancellor of the University of Benin. He was elected Senator for the Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State,Nigeria. He took office on 29 May 2003,and was re-elected in 2007 and served till 2011. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
Prince Chibudom Nwuchewas born in Enugu into the royal family of Clifford Cheta Nwuche and Grace Ogbuta Nwuche. He is from Ochigba town in Ahoada East in the Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Suhail Mohammed Faraj Al Mazroui is an Emirati businessman and politician,who has been serving as the minister of energy in the United Arab Emirates since March 2013.
Ambassador Akin Fayomi is a Nigerian career diplomat who was the Minister/Head of Political Affairs at the High Commission of Nigeria,London from July 2004 to March 2007. Later he was Ambassador and Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) to Liberia from January 2010 to July 2011. He was then appointed as Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from July 2011 to July 2012,before his appointment as The Ambassador of Nigeria to France from July 2012 to December 2013. He was also appointed as the first Nigerian Ambassador to the Principality of Monaco during the same period.
Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo was a Nigerian politician. From 1 August 2016 until his death,he was the Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. He helped to create the OPEC+ alliance between OPEC members and other oil-producing countries.
ChiefMofia Tonjo Akobo was a Nigerian politician and his major campaigns were on environmental and resource control issues. He was the first Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Federal government of Nigeria. He was trained as a medical doctor and a soldier and was deployed in the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). As the first Minister of Petroleum,it made him a key figure in developing the economy after the war,unfortunately still heavily reliant on oil.
