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Ike Nwachukwu

Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu
Senator Imo North
In office
May 1999 – May 2003
Succeeded by Uche Chukwumerije
Foreign Minister of Nigeria
In office
September 1990 – January 1993
Preceded by Rilwan Lukman
Succeeded by Matthew Mbu
In office
December 1987 – December 1989
Preceded by Bolaji Akinyemi
Succeeded by Rilwan Lukman
General Officer Commanding 1 Division Nigerian Army
In office
January 1990 – September 1990
Preceded by Maj Gen M.S. Sami
Succeeded by Maj Gen A.A. Abubakar
Governor of Imo State
In office
January 1984 – August 1985
Preceded by Sam Mbakwe
Succeeded by Allison Madueke
Personal details
Born (1941-09-01) September 1, 1941 (age 75)
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Military service
Service/branch Nigerian Army
Rank Major General

Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu mni (born September 1, 1940) is a retired Army officer and Nigerian politician who, among other positions, has served as Foreign Minister of Nigeria twice and as a Senator in the National Assembly delegation from Abia State.

Born on September 1, 1941 in Port Harcourt to an Igbo father and a Fulani mother of Katsina, Nwachukwu had his early education at the Ladi-Lak Institute, Yaba, Lagos, and Lagos City College, also in Yaba, Lagos. He obtained military training at the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna, at the Royal Canadian School of Infantry, and at the School of Infantry, Warminster, United Kingdom. He also studied at the Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy, the United Nations Peace Academy, and the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Plateau State. Ike Nwachukwu rose to the rank of major general prior to his retirement with the Nigerian Army.

Nwachukwu held the position of Military Governor of Imo State, where he moved Imo State University (now Abia State University) in Uturu to its permanent site. From 1986 to 1987 he was Minister for Employment, Labour and Productivity, where he founded the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to alleviate the problems of unemployment, especially graduate unemployment.


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