Zita Okaikoi Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
Zita Okaikoi
Office:Ambassador of Ghana to the Czech Republic
Term Start:2013
Term End:2017
Successor:Virginia Hesse
Office2:Minister for Tourism
Term Start2:2010
Term End2:2011
President2:John Atta Mills
Predecessor2:Juliana Azumah-Mensah
Successor2:Akua Dansua
Office3:Minister for Information
Term Start3:2009
Term End3:2010
President3:John Atta Mills
Predecessor3:Nana Akomea
Successor3:John Tia
Nationality:Ghanaian
Party:National Democratic Congress
Alma Mater:Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Ghana School of Law
Profession:Lawyer

Zita Sabah Okaikoi is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Tourism of Ghana and later Ghana's Ambassador to the Czech Republic.[1]

Education

Okaikoi is a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the Ghana School of Law.[2]

Politics

Okaikoi was the first Minister for Information in the National Democratic Congress government of President John Atta Mills. She held that portfolio through the first year of the Mills government. Okaikoi was appointed Minister for Tourism by President Mills in a cabinet reshuffle in January 2010.[3] She attracted controversy in 2010 when she left for the United States during her pregnancy ostensibly to have a baby.[4]

Personal life

She is the daughter of a Lebanese-Ghanaian father and a Ghanaian mother.

Zita dumped her ex-husband after a failed marriage to Mr. Andrew Okaikoi.[5] She remarried in a private wedding ceremony.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ambassadorial appointments: Tony Aidoo for Holland, Zita for South Africa . February 6, 2014 . www.adomonline.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082052/http://www.adomonline.com/news_details.php?article=3141 . 4 March 2016.
  2. Web site: President Mills is responsible for all the attacks on Zita Okaikoi the Information Minister. 2010-07-23 . 2009-10-06 . Ghana Tourist Villas .
  3. News: President Mills reshuffles Ministers . 2010-07-23 . 2010-01-25 . Ghana Home Page.
  4. News: Okaikoi And Atta Mills Hate Ghana . 2010-07-23 . 2010-06-08 . Peace FM Online.
  5. Web site: 2017-08-11 . Zita exposes ex-husband; reveals why she dumped him . 2022-08-25 . GhanaWeb . en.
  6. Web site: 2017-08-07 . Former Czech Ambassador Zita Sabah Okaikoi remarries . 2022-08-25 . GhanaPoliticsOnline.com . en-US.