Gloria Amon Nikoi

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term_start = June 1979
term_end = September 24, 1979
predecessor = Colonel Roger Felli
successor = Dr. Isaac K. Chinebuah
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birth_date = 1930
birth_place = Ghana
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Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi (born 1930 in Ghana) [cite web |url=http://www.smolec.pl/kobiety/gloria_amon_nikoi.htm |title=Gloria Amon Nikoi |accessdate=2007-04-10 |] was the Ghanaian foreign minister in 1979 under the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) government. As of 2007, she is the first and only lady to hold this position. She is also a career diplomat. In addition, she is the widow of Dr. Amon Nikoi, a former governor of the Bank of Ghana and also a former finance minister.

Career

Mrs. Nikoi was the Deputy Chief of Mission to the United Nations from 1967 to 1974. [cite web|url=http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Ghana.htm |title=Ghana Ministers |accessdate=2007-04-10 |date=23 March 2007 |work=Worldwdid Guide to Women in Leadership |author=Martin K.I. Christensen |publisher=Martin K.I. Christensen] Gloria Nikoi later worked as a senior official in the Ghanaian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After the military coup of June 4, 1979 which overthrew the Supreme Military Council government, she was made foreign minster for about four months in the AFRC government of Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. [cite web|url=http://rulers.org/fm2.html |title=Foreign ministers E-K - Ghana |accessdate=2007-04-10 |author=B. Schemmel |work=Lists of heads of state of government and ministers of various countries |publisher=Rulers.org] This ended on September 24, 1979, when the Third Republic under Dr. Hilla Limann's People's National Party government was inaugurated.

Gloria Nikoi was the Chairperson of the Bank for Housing and Construction, a Ghanaian bank, in 1981. She has also been a director of the African Development Bank (ADB). [cite web|url=http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/foreign_ministers.htm |title=Female Ministers of Foreign Affairs |accessdate=2007-04-10 |date=4 April 2007 |author=B. Schemmel |work=Lists of heads of state of government and ministers of various countries |publisher=Rulers.org] She was the first Chairperson of the Council of the Ghana Stock Exchange when it was first inaugurated on November 12, 1990. [cite web |url=http://www.gse.com.gh/aboutus/default.asp |title=About Us:Overview & History |accessdate=2007-04-10 |work=Official website |publisher=Ghana Stock Exchange ]

References

ee also

Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)

External links

* [http://www.smolec.pl/kobiety/gloria_amon_nikoi.htm Picture of Gloria Amon Nikoi (Polish website)]