Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh (18 July 1912 – 15 January 1966) was a Nigerian politician who was the finance minister of Nigeria from 1957 to 1966 during the administration of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

[1] Okotie-Eboh was born to an Itsekiri Chief, Prince Okotie Eboh in Warri, a town along the Benin River in Niger Delta.

[4] Okotie Eboh was born Festus Samuel Edah[5] in Benin River, Old Warri division.

[6] Upon graduation, he clerked briefly in the Local District Office before returning to his alma mater as a teacher.

[citation needed] Okotie-Eboh married in 1942, and, together with his wife, started a string of schools in Sapele.

Okotie-Eboh was assassinated along with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa in the military coup of 15 January 1966, which terminated the Nigerian First Republic.

Lee said in a speech in 1993 that before his death, Okotie-Eboh was planning to leave government to focus on a starting a shoe factory.