found: His Who are the Nigerians? 1960:t.p. (Okoi Arikpo, M.H.A., B.A., B.Sc., barrister-at-law)
found: LC data base, 12-28-93(hdg.: Arikpo, Okoi, 1916- )
found: Historical dictionary of Nigeria, 2nd edition, 2018, viewed online May 6, 2020:page 53 (Arikpo, Okoi (1916-1995); born September 1916; educated at the Church of Scotland School, Ugefa, and Yaba Higher College; attended University College London; assismant master, Government College at Umuahia, 1937-1938; assistant lecturer in chemistry, Yaba Higher College, 1939-1942; science master, King's College, Lagos, 1943; returned to England in 1949, assistant lecturer in anthropology until 1951, University College London; worked for Ministry of Lands, Survey, and Local Development, 1952-1953; was an independent in the Eastern House of Assembly, then joined Federal House of Representatives; return to London to study law; practiced law in Calabar 1957-1963; appointed to the National Universities Commission in 1963; federal commissioner for external affairs 1967-1973; author of The Development of Modern Nigeria (1967))
found: Calitown.com, ITM may be named after Okoi Arikpo, December 19, 2013, viewed May 6, 2020(the late Dr Okoi Arikpo, S.A.N.; president of the West African Students Union in the UK in the early 1940s; first Senior Advicate of Nigeria east of the Niger; Okoi Arikpo Egede, born September 20, 1916 in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River State; educated at the Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar; first class degree in Chemistry, University of London; studied law and called to the English bar in 1956; he was also the first West African to bag a Doctor of Philosophy degree in anthropology; died in 1995)
